The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-Fact Chapters
Title: The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-Fact Chapters
Author: William White
Release date: April 12, 2020 [eBook #61809]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024
Language: English
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THE STORY
OF
A GREAT DELUSION.
THE STORY
OF
A GREAT DELUSION
IN A SERIES OF MATTER-OF-FACT CHAPTERS.
By WILLIAM WHITE.
All the world assenting, and continually repeating and reverberating, there soon comes that singular phenomenon, which the Germans call Swarmery, or the “Gathering of Men in Swarms,” and what prodigies they are in the habit of doing and believing, when thrown into that miraculous condition....
Singular, in the case of human swarms, with what perfection of unanimity and quasi-religious conviction the stupidest absurdities can be received as axioms of Euclid, nay as articles of faith, which you are not only to believe, unless malignantly insane, but are (if you have any honour or morality) to push into practice, and without delay see done, if your soul would live!—Thomas Carlyle.
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1885.
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