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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83,
by Various
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Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
Author: Various
Release Date: January 13, 2007 [EBook #20350]
Language: English
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
VOL. XIV.--SEPTEMBER, 1864.--NO. LXXXIII.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article.
THE CADMEAN MADNESS.
An old English divine fancied that all the world might go mad and nobody know it. The conception suggests a query whether the standard of sanity, as of fashions and prices, be not a purely artificial one, an accident of convention, a law of society, an arbitrary institute, and therefore a possible mistake. A sage and a maniac