If people who on Monday scorned his opinions prudently, will on Tuesday receive his least words as oracles, they very naturally may go mad, or at least do something as foolish as their inspirer is.

Also, it is no argument against any subject, that it drives people mad who suffer themselves to be absorbed in it.

That would be an argument against all religion, and all love, by your leave.

Ask the Commissioners of Lunacy; knock at the door of mad-houses in general, and inquire what two causes act almost universally in filling them.

Answer--love and religion.