Most of them show a deficiency rather than an exuberance of inspiration; they fill entire volumes, without sense or savour; they eke out the commonplaceness of their ideas and the poverty of their style with a multitude of points of interrogation and exclamation, with repeated signatures, with special words coined by themselves, as is the habit of monomaniacs; thus Menke already observed that some mattoids contemporary with himself had invented the words _derapti felisan_. Berbiguier created the word _farfiderism_. A monomaniac, Le Bardier, wrote a work entitled _Dominatmosfheri_ intended to show farmers how to obtain double harvests, and sailors to avoid storms. He entitled himself _Dominatmosfherifateur_.[343] Cianchettini invented the _travaso_ of the idea; Pari invented _cafungaia_, and _morbozoo_, and we owe to Wahltuch, _alitrologia_ and _anthropomognotologia_, and to G---- _lepidermocrinia_ and _glossostomopatica_. We often find an eccentric handwriting, with vertical lines cut by horizontal ones and transverse furrows, even with unusually-formed letters, as in Cianchettini. They frequently introduce drawings into their sentences, as if to heighten their force, thus returning (as we have already seen to be the case with megalomaniacs) to the ideographic writing of the ancients, in which the figure served as a determining symbol. Wahltuch published two books on Psychography, a new kind of philosophic system which, however, has found a serious commentator in a sane philosopher--which speaks volumes for the seriousness of some philosophers. According to this system, ideas are represented by so many images impressed on each of the cerebral convolutions. Thus the symbol of Physics is a lighted candle; that of alitrology, or the faculty of judgment, is the nose (or the sense of smell); of ethics, a ring; and of motion, a fishing-hook. The author, despairing (and with good reason) of making himself understood in words, philosophises with his pencil, and has crammed his book with diagrams of brains covered with such figurative signs. In order to prove the applicability of these principles to literature, he has presented us with a tragedy--_Job_--in which the characters have their heads covered with similar signs, and chant verses worthy of the system, _e.g._, “O that I could separate the two united conceptions of myself and impiety. I am just. Satan is impious.”[344] The Jesuit missionary, Paoletti, wrote a book against St. Thomas, and illustrated it with a drawing of the vessels used in the Tabernacle, so as to determine the future condition of the sons of Adam with regard to predestination. The Divine and human wills are figured as two balls revolving in opposite directions, and finally meeting at a common centre.