Our very willingness to make a pact with him must be able often to produce his infusion into us.
"All the modern theories of the followers of Maudsley and Lombroso do not, in fact, render the singular abuses of the Marshal comprehensible.
Nothing could be more just than to class him as a monomaniac, for he was one, if by the word monomaniac we designate every man who is dominated by a fixed idea.

But so is every one of us, more or less, from the business man, all whose thoughts converge on the one idea of gain, to the artist absorbed in bringing his masterpiece into the world.

But why was the Marshal a monomaniac, how did he become one?
That is what all the Lombrosos in the world can't tell you.

Encephalic lesions, adherence of the _pia mater_ to the cerebrum, mean absolutely nothing in this question.

For they are simple resultants, effects derived from a cause which ought to be explained, and which no materialist can explain.