...Don’t you know that if you choose one hundred of the most intelligent people in the world...
...and get them all together , they are a stupid mob? ...
...Ten thousand of them together would have the collective intelligence of an alligator...
...Haven’t you noticed that at a dinner party the more people you invite...
...the more stupid the conversation? ...
...In a crowd , the qualities which everybody possesses multiply , pile up...
...and become the dominant characteristics of the whole crowd...
...Not everybody has virtues , but everybody has the low animal instincts...
...the basic primitive caveman suggestibility , the suspicions and vicious traits of the savage...
...The result is that when you get a nation of many millions of people, it is not even human...
...It is a lizard or a crocodile or a wolf...
...Its statesmen cannot have a higher morality than the animal like mass morality of the nation ,
although individual statesmen of the democratic states may attempt to behave a little better...
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