The second of his two dominating ideas was that fear is an instinctarising only in isolation, that in a crowd there may be a collectivepanic, but that there is no real individual fear. Fear, Benham held,drives the man back to the crowd, the dog to its master, the wolf to thepack, and when it is felt that the danger is pooled, then fear leavesus.
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