Цепочка: чувства и нравственность толпы

Разбор главы II: каковы чувства толпы — импульсивность, легковерие, преувеличение, нетерпимость, консерватизм. От раба импульсов до раба сильной власти.

  1. Толпа — раба своих импульсовimpulsiveness-and-irritability

    A crowd is at the mercy of all external exciting causes, and reflects their incessant variations. It is the slave of the impulses which it receives.
    — The Crowd, Book I, ch. II

  2. Для неё исчезает невозможноеimpulsiveness-and-irritability

    The notion of impossibility disappears for the individual in a crowd.
    — The Crowd, Book I, ch. II

  3. Она легковерна: невероятное не существуетsuggestibility

    The improbable does not exist for a crowd
    — The Crowd, Book I, ch. II

  4. Её чувства просты и преувеличеныexaggeration-and-simplicity

    Whether the feelings exhibited by a crowd be good or bad, they present the double character of being very simple and very exaggerated.
    — The Crowd, Book I, ch. II

  5. Отсюда — риторика утверждения и повтораexaggeration-and-simplicity

    An orator wishing to move a crowd must make an abusive use of violent affirmations.
    — The Crowd, Book I, ch. II

  6. Она раболепна перед сильной властьюconservatism-of-crowds

    A crowd is always ready to revolt against a feeble, and to bow down servilely before a strong authority.
    — The Crowd, Book I, ch. II

  7. И под маской бунта — глубоко консервативнаconservatism-of-crowds

    Abandoned to themselves, they soon weary of disorder, and instinctively turn to servitude.
    — The Crowd, Book I, ch. II