A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light. The Harvard Classics - Página 143 1909 Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
...individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration—which is its rarer appearance—to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form...and associations of men, and makes society possible. POLITICS (1844)* In dealing with the State we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal,...
A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light. 
