He soon becomes monomaniac, and is abandoned except by a few stragglers as crazy as himself; while he interprets the abandonment into ingratitude or heterodoxy, and grows scurrilous, turbulent, and impotent.

— Alexander Bryan Johnson The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

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