&quote;Be Sober and Reasonable&quote;

Be Sober and Reasonable deals with the theological and medical critique of "e;enthusiasm"e; in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and with the relationship between enthusiasm and the new natural philosophy in that period. "e;Enthusiasm"e; at that time was a label ascribed to various individuals and groups who claimed to have direct divine inspiration - prophets, millenarists, alchemis...