《乌合之众·第三编·不同群体的分类与描述·所谓犯罪群体》第5节
The slaughterers, too, have their scruples and exhibit that moral sense whose existence in crowds we have already pointed out. They refuse to appropriate the money and jewels of the victims, taking them to the table of the committees. Those rudimentary forms of reasoning, characteristic of the mind of crowds, are always to be traced in all their acts. Thus, after the slaughter of the 1,200 or 1,500 enemies of the nation, some one makes the remark, and his suggestion is at once adopted, that the other prisons, those containing aged beggars, vagabonds, and young prisoners, hold in reality useless mouths, of which it would be well on that account to get rid. Besides, among them there should certainly be enemies of the people, a woman of the name of Delarue, for instance, the widow of a poisoner: "She must be furious at being in prison, if she could she would set fire to Paris: she must have said so, she has said so. Another good riddance." The demonstration appears convincing, and the prisoners are massacred without exception, included in the number being some fifty children of from twelve to seventeen years of age, who, of course, might themselves have become enemies of the nation, and of whom in consequence it was clearly well to be rid.
注释摘要
勒庞在此处要证明一个看似矛盾的现象：哪怕是在犯下大规模屠杀的群体身上，也照样存在着某种他们自奉的道德规范，而正是这种道德感与极为粗糙的推理方式的结合，让暴力得以不断升级。他所引用的九月屠杀细节出自泰纳的记载，屠夫们拒绝私下侵吞受害者的金钱和珠宝，而是把这些财物上缴到委员会的桌子上，以此表明自己不是在趁火打劫，而是在执行一项公共任务。勒庞认为，这正是他之前分…