Talk:Gustave Le Bon

Energy without matter

 * On page 12 of his (Evolution of matter) he writes: "It would, no doubt be possible to conceive energy without substance, for there is nothing to prove that it necessarily requires a support; but such a conception cannot be attained by us. We can only understand things by fitting them into the common frame of our thoughts. The essence of energy being unknown, we are compelled to materialize it in order to reason thereto." WFPM (talk) 03:35, 13 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Dr Le Bon was a proponent of the concept that the atom was a container of a large quantity of what he called "intra-atomic energy", and was aware that its mass increased as a function of its velocity.WFPM (talk) 16:15, 13 March 2011 (UTC) Which was a pretty up to date concept for a 1905 book publication.WFPM (talk) 03:26, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

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 * I highly recommend that Gustave Le Bon's book: The Evolution of Matter from Charles Scribner's Sons 1907 be included in his Book reference section. The book I have is an english translation from the4 third edition by F Legge. In his introduction, he said that the book was first published and sold in France in 1905.WFPM (talk) 01:24, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Influence on fascists?
Claiming LeBon was a proto-Fascist is rather backwards: he wrote to *warn* of demagogic techniques. Observing that Hitler et al used in in reverse, so to speak, is rather like saying that [insert modern dictator here] read Orwell's 1984 as a manual rather than a cautionary tale. Solicitr (talk) 20:53, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Politically he was very much in line with fascist ideology especially in his later years, its not a mistake to call his general political outlook proto-fascist.108.45.139.206 (talk) 20:47, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Translation
Is there anyone who speaks French fluently who can translate the titles listed in the "Works" section?

Looking at the history, my above post is first in 4 years on this page so I will just translate myself. Hopefully in future someone will correct any mistakes I make. KaltenB (talk) 17:26, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

No known source for quote
I have seen this quote The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them atributed to him all over the web but no one has any idea where it came from. Any one have a clue? 2804:29B8:5028:B060:39FF:9665:8E6F:6B82 (talk) 00:18, 31 October 2023 (UTC)