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The Beginnings of Poetry

Note 896 — Chapter VI · SCIENCE AND COMMUNAL POETRY

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Set forth in Tarde’s Les Lois de l’Imitation, Paris, 1890; but the best recent summary of his views is Les Lois Sociales, Paris, 1898. Special problems of the crowd as imitative, dangerous, weak, are treated in his Essais et Mélanges Sociologiques, Lyon-Paris, 1895. See also “Les deux Éléments de la Sociologie,” in Études de Psychologie Sociale, Paris, 1898, an address delivered in 1894 before the first international Congress of Sociology.

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