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Excerpt from Fanaticism Explained: Symptoms, Cause and Cure We have met many extremists that were a long ways from excessive enthusiasm. They were as dead and dry as a door nail. Their work is always to tinker on the out side; as a rule they don't go deeper than to the skin. Their burden is mostly on clothes, sometimes on buildings, color of paint, or wallpaper. We knew of one that rebuked a preacher for having false teeth. He took them out and lived, ate, and preached for thirty years without teeth, to please the ex tremist. He did not want to be a stumbling block to any one. Extremists generally deal in material things, because they are too dead to understand anything about spiritual things; but fanaticism is a thousand miles beyond an extremist. 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.