The whole kingdom seemed to have gone mad.

Paterson had acquired an influence resembling rather that of the founder of a new religion, that of a Mahomet, that of a Joseph Smith, than that of a commercial projector.

Blind faith in a religion, fanatical zeal for a religion, are too common to astonish us.

But such faith and zeal seem strangely out of place in the transactions of the money market.

It is true that we are judging after the event.