The Most Common Delusions and Madness of the Crowd

About how through the centuries, decades, and years, people have not lost and will never lose their passion for obscurantism. How else can we call medieval torture, ancient Greek predictions, and even modern divination by the Moon and coffee grounds?... Mackay does not even try to answer the question of why people do this. He simply vividly depicts the statistics of madness through which humanity has passed. Charles Mackay's book is a collection of the most outstanding delusions and madness of humanity: from financial pyramids to religious psychoses. It has become a classic work on mass manias, crowd behavior, and human folly. The "delusions" and "madness" described in the book pertain to chronic "ailments" of humanity. Financial pyramids, corruption of power, forgery, and the self-deception of imaginary healers and prophets — all this has been, is, and will be. He received his education at the Royal Caledonian School in London and later in Brussels, but spent most of his youth in France. In 1834, Charles published a collection "Songs and Poems", and in 1841 he released his most famous, now classic work on mass manias, "The Most Common Delusions and Madness of the Crowd". From his pen came the book "History of London" and the historical novel about primitive England "Longbeard".