Excerpt from The Psychology of the Aggregate Mind of an Audience To begin with, the importance of the psychology of the aggregate mind is self - evident, since it is the prac tical side of the science. For a clear scientific under standing of the laws governing a group of individual minds would at least give the world a new applied science of great value. If these laws were established, they would give a sounder, safer basis for the handling of such groups by leaders, and would furnish the indi viduals of mental aggregates with a better, deeper knowledge of themselves by disclosing one of the im portant factors which influence their lives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.