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[Another excerpt](https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/lebon/Crowds.pdf)

> **`The majority of men, especially among the masses, do not possess clear and reasoned ideas on any subject whatever outside their own speciality.`** The **`leader serves them as guide`**. It **`is just possible that he may be replaced, though very inefficiently, by the periodical publications which manufacture opinions for their readers and supply them with ready-made phrases which dispense them of the trouble of reasoning`**.

> **`The leaders of crowds wield a very despotic authority`**, and this despotism indeed**` is a condition of their obtaining a following`**. It has often been remarked`<strong> how easily they extort obedience,</strong>` although **`without any means of backing up their authority, from the most turbulent section of the working classes.`**