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The greatest minds were then sinking under such popular superstitions: and whoever has read much of the private history of this age will have smiled at their ludicrous terrors and bewildered reasonings.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac