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Mayflower." This is fanaticism of another sort. In ninety cases out of a hundred fanatics must have bad livers, or they are dyspeptics, or they are in some way diseased. By and by even physicians will find out that fanaticism is a kind of disease. I have seen plenty of it-Lord save me from it!
My experience has become condensed in this form, namely, that we should keep away from all sorts of fanatical reforms. Do you mean to say that the wine fanatics love the poor fellows who become drunkards ? Fanatics are fanatics because they expect to get something for themselves out of the fanaticism. As soon as the battle is over, they go in for the spoil. As soon as you come out of the company of fanatics you learn how to really to love and sympathise. It will become possible for you to sympathise with the drunkard and to know that he also is a man like you. You will then try to understand the many circumstances that are dragging him down, and feel that if you had been in his place you would perhaps have committed suicide. I remember a
