Joseph Addison Quotes about Enthusiasm
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
Joseph Addison (1721). “The Spectator, no. 90-505”, p.171
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.70
