In these men, the cherished and amiable monomania of gifted minds was realized.

The militarist monomania of Germany will have become incomprehensible; her Welt Politik literature incredible and unreadable....

But, as in religious monomania there is something touchingly noble, as compared with the delirium tremens of a drunkard, so in that extreme sensitiveness of the samurai about their honor do we not recognize the substratum of a genuine virtue?

But for this unfortunate monomania, the Queen has not a better subject, London has not a worthier citizen than the plain spoken, simple-hearted Robert Thompson.

What an unhappy monomania!