ll, Jake?" I asked.

"Ye're needin' some grub," said Jake shortly.

On thinking it over I feel that Jake's theory throws some light on
Jung's theory of the libido.

IV.

This morning I had a letter from a friend in London asking when I am
going to set up my "Crank School" in London. I began to think about the
word Crank. What is a Crank? Usually the name is applied to people who
wear long hair, eat vegetarian diet, wear sandals . . . or something in
that line. A Crank therefore is someone who differs from the crowd, and
I am led to conclude that the Crank not only differs from the crowd but
is usually ahead of the crowd.

According to Sir Martin Conway the crowd has no head; it can only feel.
Hence it comes that the main feature of a crowd is its emotion. When we
study the street crowd, the mob, this fact is evident; but can we say the
same of other crowds . . . the Public School crowd, the Church, the
Miners, the Doctors? I think so. The anger that Alec Waugh's book, _The
Loom of Youth_, aroused in the public schools was not a thought-out
anger; it came from the public school emotion. So with vivisection; the
doctors' rage at the anti-vivisectionists is not an intellectual rage; it
is simply a professional emotion. Just before I left London I happened
one night to be in a company of men who were arguing about
Re-incarnation. I had no special views on the subject, but I soon found
myself supporting the crowd that was sceptical about Re-incarnation. The
reason was that the leader of the anti-reincarnation crowd happened to be
a man called Neill. It is highly probable that if two rag-and-bone men
got into a scrap in a public house they would support each other simply
out of a professional crowd emotion.

That the crowd has no head is evident when we read the popular papers or
see the popular films. The most successful papers are those that touch
the passions of the mob. I proved this one week last spring. Judges
were beginning to introduce the "cat" for criminals, as a means to stem
the crime wave. I sat down and wrote an article on the subject, pointing
out that this was a going back to the days of barbarism when lunatics
were whipped behind the cart's tail. I made a strong plea for the
psychological treatment of the criminal, basing my plea on the fact that
crime is the result of unconscious workings of the mind, and stating that
instead of sending a poor man to penal servitude we ought to a