Professor Lyell, speaking of the millerite phrenzy, and how some men of pretty sound mind were carried away with it, remarks to this effect: "Religious delusion is like a famine fever, which attacks first the hungry and emaciated, but in its progress cuts down many of the well-fed and robust."
"The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society"
William Withington
Thus the old house rose from four rooms to eight, with several attics, and the singer and lawyers pass off the scene, to be followed by the Baptist deacon who later seceded and became a millerite, holding meetings of great fervor in the front room, where one wall used to be covered with figures which proved beyond a doubt that the end of the world was at hand, and where later he and his fellow believers appeared in their ascension robes.
"Old Plymouth Trails"
Winthrop Packard
They told me it was built on by the millerite, but I knew better.
"Old Plymouth Trails"
Winthrop Packard