“Have you never seen human beings acting in a mob-frenzy? Have you never seen a religious rite that tipped people over the edge? Did you not see footage of the rock-and-roll music concerts they have in America?”
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 14, “Confinement” (p. 131)
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