De Quincey

"I took it, and in an hour, Oh Heavans ! What a revulsion ! What an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit 1 What an apocalypse of the world within me. What had opened before me -- an abyss of divine enjoyment suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea for all human woes. Here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered".
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)