The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology

PREFACE

In this book I have sketched the principles of the mental life of groups and have made a rough attempt to apply these principles to the understanding of the life of nations. I have had the substance of the

book in the form of lecture notes for some years, but have long

hesitated to publish it. I have been held back, partly by my sense of the magnitude and di...