In his Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, published in 1852, Charles MacKay had this to say: "In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. "¦. whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit "¦ millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."
He was not writing about global warming or global cooling, though both had a significant effect upon life and prosperity even in his time, with warming being beneficial, and cooling, the bringer of hardship and death.
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