 | Charles Mackay - Fiction - 1841 - 426 pages
...paper. To trace the history of the most prominent of these delusions is the object of the present pages. Men, it has been well said, think in herds ; it will...only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. In the present state of civilization, society has often shown itself very prone to run a career of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pages
...fatal intoxicant had bewildered the mind, and clouded all natural vision. It has been said that men think in herds ; it will be seen that they go mad...only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Professor Person said he would write the history of human folly in five hundred volumes ; and perhaps... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1869 - 98 pages
...paper. To trace the history of the most prominent of these delusions is the object of the present pages. Men, it has been well said, think in herds ; it will...only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Some of the subjects introduced may be familiar to the reader ; but the Author hopes that sufficient... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1908 - 590 pages
...has familiarized us with popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It has been well said that men go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. But the present craze for the psychic is by no means confined to the laity. It has invaded not only... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1908 - 622 pages
...has familiarized us with popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It has been well said that men go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. I5ut the present craze for the psychic is by no means confined to the laity. It has invaded not only... | |
 | Clark McPhail - Psychology - 298 pages
...Charles Mackay (1852) published his treatise Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will...only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." That Mackay 's book remains in print today is testimony to a continuing fascination with the idea of... | |
 | Robert A. Glick, Steven P. Roose, Steven T. Roose - Family & Relationships - 1993 - 292 pages
...shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity. . . . Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will...only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. The variety of phenomena that Mackay takes up in this treatise is in itself instructive: lynch mobs... | |
 | Tonis Vaga - Business & Economics - 1994 - 284 pages
...Extraordinary - Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay wrote: "Men, it has well been said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they recover their senses slowly, and one by one." The theory of polarization in magnetic materials can... | |
 | J. T. W. Hubbard - Business & Economics - 1995 - 352 pages
...crowds, just like individuals, have their own mental dynamics. "Men." declared the learned doctor, "think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad...only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." During the decade of the 1980s the financial community spawned a whole stampede of more or less crazed... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - Business & Economics - 1996 - 308 pages
...Tocqueville was a forerunner of "crowd psychology," the study of the idolatrous or fetishistic masses). "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will...only recover their senses slowly, and one by one," observes Mackay (xx). In regard to the South Sea Bubble, he resorts to the by-then-hackneyed metaphors... | |
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly and one by one. 
