After all, delusions of grandeur are the most entertaining of toys.

A delusion is a mental error or deception, and may have regard to things actually existing, as well as to illusions.

Still are God's dumb creatures tortured, Racial hatreds never cease, And man's greatest self-delusion Is the shibboleth of "Peace.

The delusion, if delusion it were, clung to her, haunted her, pursued her, week after week.

"Since that delusion is a fact for her we must treat it as if it were a fact for us.

No delusion could be profounder and none, perhaps, more dangerous.

" "By the way," remarked the Doctor, "and you remind me of the subject, what a strange delusion is this Spiritualism, to the 'manifestations' of which you refer, and how singular it is that men of strong natural sense and cultivated minds, should be drawn into it.

But it is on this very account a perilous delusion to teach that war is a cure for moral evil in any other sense than as the sister tribulations are.