The True Believer_ Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Eric Hoffer [68]
3. Edward A. Ross, The Changing Chinese (New York: Century Company, 1911), p. 92.
4. Alexis de Tocqueville, On the State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 (London: John Murray, 1888), p. 149.
5. Ibid, p. 152.
6. Lyford P. Edwards, The Natural History of Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1927), p. 70.
7. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans 8:25.
8. See Section 116.
9. I. A. R. Wylie, “The Quest of Our Lives,” Reader’s Digest, May 1948, p. 2.
10. Crane Brinton, A Decade of Revolution (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934), p. 161.
11. Ernest Renan, The Hibbert Lectures, 1880 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1898), Preface.
12. Epictetus, Discourses, Book I, Chap. 2.
13. Arthur J. Hubbard, The Fate of Empires (New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1913), p. 170.
14. Matthew 10:35–37.
15. Ibid., 12:47–49.
16. Ibid., 8:22.
17. Ibid., 10:21.
18. Kenneth Scott Latourette, The Chinese, their History and Culture (New York: Macmillan Company, 1946), Vol. I, p. 79.
19. Brooks Adams, The Law of Civilization and Decay (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1943), p. 142.
20. Quoted by Nicolas Zernov, Three Russian Prophets (Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1944), p. 63.
21. Peter F. Drucker, “The Way to Industrial Peace,” Harper’s Magazine, Nov. 1946, p. 392.
22. Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937), Vol. I, p. 164.
23. Ibid., p. 23.
24. Ibid., p. 163.
25. Carlton J. H. Hayes, A Generation of Materialism (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941), p. 254.
26. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History (New York: Macmillan Company, 1922), p. 719.
27. Theodore Abel, Why Hitler Came into Power (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1938), p. 150.
28. Alexis de Tocqueville, op. cit., p. 152.
29. More about veterans in Section 38 and about the relation between armies and mass movements in Section 64.
Chapter VI
1. See Section 111.
Chapter X
1. Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940), p. 268.
2. Ibid., p. 258.
3. Miriam Beard, A History of the Businessman (New York: Macmillan Company, 1938), p. 462.
Chapter XI
1. “… Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.” Luke 15:7. So also in the Talmud (quoted by Joseph Klausner in Jesus of Nazareth, p. 380): “Where the repentant stand, the wholly righteous are not worthy to stand.”
2. A letter in Life, Dec. 23, 1946, written by R. S. Aldrich.
3. See Section 45 on Russian confessions.
4. Quoted by Brooks Adams, The Law of Civilization and Decay (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1943), p. 144.
PART 3
Chapter XII
1. See Section 64 on armies.
2. “Of the North American Indians, those had the intensest feeling of unity who were the most warlike.” W. G. Sumner, War and Other Essays (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911), p. 15.
Chapter XIII
1. See more on this subject in Section 90.
2. Christopher Burney, The Dungeon Democracy (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946), p. 147. See also on the same subject Odd Nansen, From Day To Day (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1949), p. 335; also Arthur Koestler, The Yogi and the Commissar (New York: Macmillan Company, 1945), p. 178.
3. For another view of the subject, see Section 20.
4. Ernest Renan, History of the People of Israel (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1888–1896), Vol. Ill, p. 416.
5. John Buchan, Pilgrim’s Way (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940), p. 183.
6. Ecclesiastes 1:10.
7. Ibid., 1:9.
8. Ibid., 9:4, 5, 6.
9. There is an echo of this disconcerting truth in a letter from Norway written at the time of the Nazi invasion: “The trouble with us is that we have been so favored in all ways that many of us have lost the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Life has been so pleasant to a great number of people that they are unwilling to risk it seriously.” Quoted by J. D. Barry in the San Francisco News, June 22, 1940.
10.