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The frenetic evangelist, worked up to a state of unbalanced excitement, may incite his audience either to melodramatic holiness or to religious hysteria. They are so overwhelmed by their emotions--which in turn are prompted by hypnotic suggestion--that when the wave subsides later, they may repudiate what is now accepted.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 6 : Delusions and Painful Awakenings > # 112