Chapter 1

CROWDS AND MACHINES

I. WHERE ARE WE GOING? 3

II. THE CROWD SCARE 19

III. THE MACHINE SCARE 34

IV. THE STRIKE--AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS THINK 49

V. THE CROWD-MAN--AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS SEE 58

VI. THE IMAGINATION OF CROWDS 65

VII. IMAGINATION ABOUT THE UNSEEN 66

VIII. THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT THE FUTURE 69

IX. THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT PEOPLE 74

X. A DEMOCRATIC THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE 76

XI. DOING AS ONE WOULD WISH ONE HAD DONE IN TWENTY YEARS 80

XII. NEW KINDS AND NEW SIZES OF MEN 86