He has been hugely vituperated by evolutionary philosophers for hismania for the "age of gold" and his disbelief in progress.
More interesting still, and still more morbid, is that persecution mania which seized him in his later days--the mania that all the world loathed him and laughed at him and plotted to make a fool of him.
Rousseau's so-called mania of persecution can easily be explained.
I refer to his mania for solitude, his self-conscious passion for nature.
The thing that struck Hugh as bordering on the comical was that even a small colored boy might have the same mania for gathering "trophies" of his visits that possessed Madame Pangborn.
When I saw what an astonishing assortment of old junk that boy had collected, I knew he had a mania for picking up things.
The mania for expansion had ascended, and the fashion of large puffed sleeves in the same year prompted the criticism of the little girl: "Oh, Mummy, have you been vaccinated on both arms?
The pageant mania became acute in 1907, when Punch satirically asks, "Can you cite any other country where it is impossible to walk out of doors without colliding with an historical pageant?
In fact, this ambition had developed into a sort ofmania with him.
It is an infirmity, a positive mania with him, and you may rest assured that I have made the most of it.
To them the present mania is an undoubted lease of the finer uses of intellect, and their mental horizons have widened until the prose of their lives is brightened into poetry.
The man has a perfect mania for reading about murders and robberies, and all that sort of thing.
How happy would be our south-how desolate themania for abolition--if such a comity of good feeling between master and slaves existed on every plantation!
He has delivered himself of something that makes everybody else laugh; the mania has caught upon his own subtle self.
After this Amy subsided, till a mania for sketching from nature set her to haunting river, field, and wood, for picturesque studies, and sighing for ruins to copy.
He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth.
While the cooking mania lasted she went through Mrs. Cornelius's Receipt Book as if it were a mathematical exercise, working out the problems with patience and care.
A stout Frenchman, who knew the Emperor, came to indulge his mania for dancing, and Lady de Jones, a British matron, adorned the scene with her little family of eight.
Jan Cuxson, who like his father had a positive mania for protecting and helping those in trouble, which mania got him into an infinite and varied amount of trouble himself, and led him into unexpected boles and corners of the earth.
The mania for coin collecting is another inherent tendency the presence of which has probably never been suspected in my disposition.
It was as though she had a mania that drove her ever onwards.
Everybody laughed: it was a mania of Dorine's to traverse the Hague daily from end to end; she was a very willing creature and she was particularly busy just now for Bertha and Adolphine, because of the two weddings.
It was especially where her children were concerned that Adolphine had that mania for having and doing everything in a very imposing fashion, a fashion at least as imposing as that in which Bertha had and did things for hers.
His mania for tidiness often forced me, against my nature, to a counteracting negligence.
After all, my good Richard may have remained absolutely true to me, thanks to his mania for having all things in order.
In the fine-wool mania which ensued, weight of fleece, constitution, and every thing else, were sacrificed to the quality of the wool.
This period became distinguished by a mania for heavy fleeces.
Barclay, Andrew Borde, Skelton and others, all satirize the mania for French fashions.
In almost every book written at the time there is some reference to the mania for French fashions.
In many cases the passion for all things French became a mania with the ladies, as is frequently pictured in the drama of the time.
Tarentum was the old Calabrian city later known as Tarento, where during the middle ages the dancing mania appeared in aggravated form.
As is well known, he had for his first violin teacher the celebrated Alexander Boucher, with whom he greatly enjoyed playing; but he had a mania for beginning first without paying any attention to the measure; and if M.
In a kind of mania he imagined himself to be the object of a special espionage; and when his hours of service were over, he would shut himself up in his room, and pass in mournful solitude the whole time he was not on duty.
It is a sketch of mysticism and religious mania peculiar, though not too common, to the Russian temperament.
Nicholas Gogol, a soul crushed by its own greatness, a victim to the noblest infirmity and the most generous mania that can come upon a man, a martyr to love of country.
The hero is a misanthropic patriot who sighs for the good old times and abuses the mania for foreign education and imitation.
It is but just, nevertheless, to acknowledge that in France the maniafor the exotic has a laudable aim and obeys an instinct of equity.
But the opposition to the canal was too insignificant to claim notice; and when the building of it was once commenced an improvement mania raged.
But a mania for titles of a curious and ludicrous sort sometimes crossed and thwarted, especially among the Florentines, the levelling influence of art and culture.
Indeed, among the crowds of armed retainers who were necessary for the personal safety of the great, and who lived in idleness, it was natural that outbreaks of this mania for blood should from time to time occur.
If such however was originally the case, this humane rule was unfortunately soon abandoned; for nowhere did the maniaof persecution at one time rage more than in Geneva, as is evident from Delrio's preface.
Even at that time I believe his mind was unhinged, for, without any reason, he had conceived a strange hatred towards me; and now I am convinced that he is labouring under a mania which causes him to mistake his identity.
What do you mean by dypso-mania as a medical term?
A doctor has no more immunity from dypso-mania than his patient.
He might as well, on his own theory, prescribe thin clothing and damp air to one whose father or mother had died of consumption as alcoholic stimulants to one, who has the taint of dypso-mania in his blood.
