Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895), Book I, Chapter IV, p. 67.
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Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardor of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would soon become a cult.
— Gustave Le Bon on Atheism
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About Gustave Le Bon
Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics.
About Gustave Le Bon
Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics.
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