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General view of the Subject -- Humbug universal -- In religion -- In politics -- In business -- In science -- In medicine -- How is it to cease -- The greatest humbug of all.
A little reflection will show that humbug is an astonishingly widespread phenomenon -- in fact almost universal. And this is true, although we exclude crimes and arrant swindles from the definition of it, according to the somewhat careful explanation which is given in the beginning of the chapter succeeding this one.