It was
a bold theme for an allegory, and would have suited that age well
had it been taken up by one fully qualified for the task, which this
writer was not. In short, we must either conceive him not only the
greatest fool, but the greatest wretch, on whom was ever stamped
the form of humanity; or, that he was a religious maniac, who
wrote and wrote about a deluded creature, till he arrived at that
height of madness that he believed himself the very object whom
he had been all along describing. And, in order to escape from an
ideal tormentor, committed that act for which, according to the
tenets he embraced, there was no remission, and which consigned
his memory and his name to everlasting detestation.
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