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The crowd is not so well-trained as a Versailles garden party of Louis XIV, but it is far better trained than the Sans-culottes and it has infinite possibilities.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Here, Du Bois contrasts the crowd's potential with the rigid formality of elite gatherings, suggesting a more organic social structure.
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