POPULAR BUSINESS DELUSIONS

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE THE TULIPOMANIA RELICS MODERN PROPHECIES POPULAR ADMIRATION FOR GREAT THIEVES INFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND RELIGION ON THE HAIR AND BEARD DUELS AND 0RDEALS THE LOVE OF THE MARVELOUS AND THE DISBELIEF OF THE TRUE POPULAR FOLLIES IN GREAT CITIES THE O. P. MANIA THE THUGS, OR PHANSIGARS NATIONAL DELUSIONS. In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.