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The Scottish journalist and poet Charles Mackay was best known for his book The Thames And Its Tributaries when, in 1841, he published a seminal text in the study of human stupidity, its insight rendered no less relevant by the passing of almost two centuries. In Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Mackay details subjects as diverse as the South Sea Bubble, the Crusades, and indeed ‘the Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard’.
“Every age has its peculiar folly,” wrote Mackay, “some scheme, project or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.”
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