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As Enthusiasm is a kind of Excess in Devotion, Superstition is the Excess not only of Devotion, but of Religion in general, according to an old Heathen Saying, quoted by Aulus Gellius, Religentem esse oportet, Religiosum nefas; A Man should be Religious, not Superstitious: For as the Author tells us, Nigidius observed upon this Passage, that the Latin Words which terminate in osus generally imply vicious Characters, and the having of any Quality to an Excess.
"Why, `What a malodorous effluvium!" said Henderson, imitating exactly the master's somewhat drawling tone; "`what a con-cen-trra-ted malarious miasma; what an unendurable' I say Power, give us the Greek, or Hebrew, or Kamschatkan, for `smell." "Odwde," suggested Power. "That's it to a T," said Henderson; "I bet you he observed, `What an un-en-duu-rrable osus. Now, didn't he?
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