Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case Of James Tilly Matthews And The Influencing Machine Quotes
Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.
The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.
If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.
James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.