...which constitutes a crowd there is in no sort a summingup of or an average struck between its elements. What really takes place is a combination followed by the creation of new characterfstics, just as in chemistry certain elements, when brought into contact — bases and acids,...

...being which displays characteristics very different from those possessed by each of the cells singly. What really takes place is a combination followed...from those of the bodies that have served to form it. ... It is for these reasons that juries are seen to deliver verdicts of which each individual juror...

...constitutes a crowd there is in no sort a summing-up of or an average struck between its elements. What really takes place is a combination followed...from those of the bodies that have served to form it. It is easy to prove how much the individual forming part of a crowd differs from the isolated individual,...

...constitutes a crowd there is in no sort a summing up of or an average struck between its elements. What really takes place is a combination followed...from those of the bodies that have served to form it. (Le Bon, 1960 [1895], p. 27) The difficulty is that, although Le Bon recognizes the emergent properties...

...constitutes a crowd there is in no sort a summing-up of or an average struck between its elements. What really takes place is a combination followed...form a new body possessing properties quite different front those of the bodies that have served to form it. It is easy to prove how much the individual...

...Herbert Spencer, the aggregate that constitutes a crowd is not merely the sum or average of its elements. What really takes place is a combination followed...creation of new characteristics, just as in chemistry when certain elements are brought into contact — acids and bases, for example — and combine to...

...the tumor's identity lies in its capacity to generate difference: the crowd "forms a single being ... a new body possessing properties quite different from those of the bodies that have served to form it" (Le Bon 2, 6), while the mass has a "distinct individuality . . . there are the same differences among...

...and act were he in a state of isolation . . . What really takes place [in the formation of a crowd] is a combination followed by the creation of new characteristics,...chemistry certain elements, when brought into contact . . . combine to form a new body possessing properties quite different from those of the bodies that...

...it sets off a chain reaction like those that fascinated Le Bon in his writings on atomic particles: "just as in chemistry certain elements, when brought...those of the bodies that have served to form it," so it is with the crowd.5 His socialist counterpart Ferri shared the same thought: Collective psychology...