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  • Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

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    Joseph Addison (1721). “The Spectator, no. 90-505”, p.171

  • In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

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    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1832). “The Spectator: with notes and general index, from the London stereotype edition ...”

  • There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

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    Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.70
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Joseph Addison

  • Born: May 1, 1672
  • Died: June 17, 1719
  • Occupation: Essayist
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