“It will hardly be denied that a revolution, whatever else it may be, is a phenomenon of the crowd. I have endeavored to approach the historical survey of revolutionary movements from the standpoint of social psychology.”

—  Everett Dean Martin

Source: Farewell to Revolution (1935), p. x, Foreword

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