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The crowd, touched with morbid ideality, be- comes the mob. A mob is the crowd corrupted by iinrealizable abstractions. The September massacres in Paris and St. Bartholomew's day are corollaries of the divine right of kings and The Religion of Democracy. priests. A slum is the reflection in a puddle of the dilettanteism of drawing rooms and the cant of sectarian churches ; as a museum of horrors is of like inspiration with a charity ball. Both make a pomp of misery and shame. XI. Psychologicall...y speaking, it is the definition of the old regime that therein the practical understanding which proceeds from the will is subordinated to the faculty of pass- ive thinking call it intuition, cognition, reflec- tion, abstraction, pure reason, as you like which proceeds from the emotions from that in a man wherein he is moved, but is not a mover. The strife of the ages is to get this order reversed, to master the thinking that re- flects by the thinking that grapples with things and creates the thinking that conceives ideals, by the thinking that achieves them.
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