勒庞的预言
中国不久就会发现，一个失去了漫长历史给它披上盔甲的社会，等待着它的会是怎样的命运。在几年血腥的无政府状态之后，它必然会建立一个政权，它的专制程度将会比它所推翻的政权有过之而无不及。
——古斯塔夫·勒庞 《革命心理学》(写于1911年)
China will soon discover the fate that awaits a society deprived of the armour slowly wrought by the past. After a few years of bloody anarchy it will be necessary to establish a power whose tyranny will inevitably be far severer than that which was overthrown.
-- Gustave Le Bon, 《The Psychology of Revolutions》, London, Allen&Unwin, 1913, book 1, chapter 3, sect.3
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