“The ideas of the past, although half destroyed, being still very powerful, and the ideas which are to replace them being still in process of formation, the modern age represents a period of transition and anarchy.” 
— Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895)
https://propagandaarchive.org/library/lebon-the-crowd/01-introduction-the-era-of-crowds/
