《乌合之众·第三编·不同群体的分类与描述·群体的分类》第3节
The wide divergencies which their inherited mental constitution creates in men's modes of feeling and thinking at once come into prominence when, which rarely happens, circumstances gather together in the same crowd and in fairly equal proportions individuals of different nationality, and this occurs, however identical in appearance be the interests which provoked the gathering. The efforts made by the socialists to assemble in great congresses the representatives of the working-class populations of different countries, have always ended in the most pronounced discord. A Latin crowd, however revolutionary or however conservative it be supposed, will invariably appeal to the intervention of the State to realise its demands. It is always distinguished by a marked tendency towards centralisation and by a leaning, more or less pronounced, in favour of a dictatorship. An English or an American crowd, on the contrary, sets no store on the State, and only appeals to private initiative. A French crowd lays particular weight on equality and an English crowd on liberty. These differences of race explain how it is that there are almost as many different forms of socialism and democracy as there are nations.
注释摘要
勒庞在这一段要完成一个关键的论证：群体的行为并非仅仅由眼前的刺激或表面的利益决定，在更深层的结构上，它被一种几乎无法摆脱的、源于种族遗传的心理构造所支配。即便是因为表面利益完全一致而聚集起来的一群人，只要他们来自不同民族，他们内心深处感受事物和进行思考的方式就会显示出巨大的分歧，最终导致争吵与分裂。他举出的一个具体例子，便是当时各国社会主义者试图召开国际工…