Also seek cunning men, feigning, by mesmeric ken,

Missing property to trace and indicate the thief,

Cure ailments, give predictions: all of these enormous fictions

Are, among our higher classes, matters of belief.

Oh, Mr. Faraday, simple Mr. Faraday!

Past, you probably supposed the days of Dr. Dee,

Up turned his Crystal, though, but a little while ago,

Full of magic visions for genteel small boys to see.

Talk of gentility! see what gullibility

Fashionable dupes of homœopathy betray,