… is from page 513 of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s magisterial The History of England, abridged edition, Hugh Trevor-Roper, editor (New York: Penguin Books, 1968):
He, after the fashion of all the false prophets who have deluded themselves and others, drew new faith in his own lie from the credulity of his disciples.
DBx: History is stuffed, down to our present day, with such hubris-slathered individuals – and with their credulous disciples.
