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It is curious that the Scientific Spirit has never tabulated any research, even superficial, upon the human type of charlatan.
It is the essence of a charlatan that he aims at the results of certain excellences in the full consciousness that he does not possess those excellences. The material upon which he works is twofold: the ignorance and the noble appetite for reverence in his fellow men.