The hypochondriac conceives that everything is going to the "demnition bow-wows." Nothing can reassure him.

He sees in every article of diet a hidden fiend of dyspepsia; in every drink a demon of torture.

Every man he meets is a scoundrel, and every woman a leech.

Children are growing worse daily, and society is "rotten." The Church is organized for the mere fattening of a raft of preachers and parsons who preach what they don't believe and never try to practice.

Lawyers and judges are all dishonest swindlers caring nothing for honor and justice and seeking only their fees; physicians and surgeons are pitiless wretches who scare their patients in order to extort money from them; men in office are waiting, lurking, hunting for chances to graft, eager to steal from their constituents at every opportunity.