''there are collective heroisms but no collective masterpieces. The crowd can attain supreme manifestations of virtue, but it cannot reach supreme manifestations of creative intelligence. In no political, scientific, or literary history do we find the example of a crowd that had a bril-liant idea—by itself, in a given moment, and without external suggestion. Who could cite a council of war that conceived a battle plan comparable to Napoleon’s? Who could cite a council of ministers that issued one of those political reforms that was the epoch’s glory and made the names of Machiavelli, Richelieu, or Bismarck famous? Who could cite a congress of scientists in which one of those world-changing discoveries happened and rendered a Laplace or Galileo immortal.''
— Scipio Sighele, The Criminal Crowd. Italian thinker who founded the study of "collective psychology"
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