Excerpt from Remarkable Delusions, or Illustrations of Popular Errors Error has thus become an element inseparable from the existence Of human nature. As, In his first fall, man had been allured by the lying promise, Ye Shall be as gods - so he has since that period been ever deceived by some ambitious hope, as brilliant and as false as that which constituted his earliest temptation. Some of the errors into which our fellow-creatures have been led will be recorded In the following. Pages. But those which we can here enumerate are only specimens, and many of them specimens of delusion in its mildest form.' The greater developments of credulity are not within our present scope. But all sin is credulity of the false, all virtue springs from belief of the true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.