Little by little his claims became more and more absurd. At one time, wishing to know what was in the man, arrangements were made for an interview and he talked for more than an hour the greatest hodge-podge of metaphysics that has ever come out of any brain. After the interview the opinion of a Chinese gentleman was asked, and he quietly said, "The man is undoubtedly mad!" This opinion we accepted. For this reason it was not considered necessary to pay any further attention to the antics of a mad man.
While the result has been startling it is not the first time in the history of the world that people: have blindly followed a mad man. Is it not too bad that even intelligent people will seriously discuss the claims and pretentious. of men who are known to be at least mentally unbalanced on the subject they write about? People here
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