All were democratic in their last conclusion, for all were inspired by a love of mankind without distinction of classes.
Affiliations were multiplied _ad infinitum_.

Prejudice, as it always occurs when zeal is ardent, was added fraudulently to truth, as if error or falsehood were the inevitable alloy of truth, and even the virtues of the human mind: they called up past ages, summoned spectres, and the dead were heard to speak.

They played upon the plastic imagination of princes, by rapid transition from terror to enthusiasm.

The knowledge of the phantasmagoria, then but little known, served as an auxiliary in these deceptions.

On the death of Frederic II., his successor submitted to such tests, and was worked upon by wonders.