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The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporary, fix for a breaking mind, a coping strategy for a life tha…

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

But, mad or sane, Matthews was a man of no ordinary persistence. He was not prepared to renounce the peace plan, any more than he would be prepared to renounce his madness a few ye…

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen it as an aristocratic fad: Mesmer (by this stage long gone to Germany and Switz…

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

We are now edging across the boundary - always a porous one - between self-justification and fantasy. Matthews' story is by no means a complete fantasy: we can recognise every even…

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especiall…

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

The French army had crowned a campaign of extraordinary successes by defeating the Austrians at Jemappes and pressing on to occupy a large swathe of Belgium and threaten Holland. F…

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet as late as halfway through 1792, most of the familiar images of t…

Mike Jay A Visionary Madness: The Case of James T… biography history psychology

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A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.

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