| sainteté par des extases et des transports, souvent dangereux pour | | les Chrétiens que le hazard en rend témoins malgré cux.”—_Transl. | | note._ | | | | [338] For examples see _Osiander_, Entwickelungskrankheiten. Loc. | | cit. p. 45. | | | | [339] Among 108 cases of insanity, _Perfect_ mentions eleven of | | mania and methodistical enthusiasm, _in nine of which suicide was | | committed_. Annals of Insanity. London, 1808. 8vo. | | | | [340] _Harris Rowland_ and _William Williams_. | | | | [341] _John Evans_, Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian | | World. 13th edition. London, 1814. 12mo. p. 236.—See _Grégoire_, | | loc. cit. tome iv. chap. xiii. p. 483. | | | | [342] _Mrs. Trollope’s_ Domestic Manners of the Americans. A | | Revival, pp. 108–112. Shaking Quakers, pp. 195–196. Camp Meeting, | | p. 233. London, 2 vols. 1832.—_Transl. note._ | | | | [343] In Kentucky, assemblies of from ten to twelve thousand have | | frequently taken place. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and | | New York, are also the theatres of these meetings.—_Grégoire_, tome | | iv. p. 496. | | | | [344] At one of these camp-meetings a traveller saw above eight | | hundred persons faint away. Idem. He nowhere met with more frequent | | instances of suicide in consequence of Demonomania, than in North | | America. | | | | [345] Idem. p. 498. These are the _Barkers_. Numerous other | | convulsive Methodistical sects abound in North America. The | | _Shakers_, who are inimical to marriage, would also have been | | mentioned, were not their contortions much less violent than those | | of the Jumpers.—See _Grégoire_, tome v. p. 195. _Evans_, p. 267. | | | | [346] See _Perrin du Lac_, Voyage dans les deux Louisianes. | | Paris, 1805. 8vo. chap. ix. pp. 64, 65. chap. xvii. pp. 128, | | 129.—_Michaud_, Voyage à l’ouest des Monts Alleghanys. Paris, | | 1804. 8vo. p. 212.—_John Melish_, Travels in the United States of |