Tolstoy's "Enthusiasm"

[Zielinski]

Edward Dumanis:

> Which reminds me that French was the language of Russian nobility (I do
> not remember it now, but I guess it was from the XVIII century), and so
> French words were mixed with Russian ones in spoken Russian. Since the
> word "enthousiasme" exists in French, it means that from the time when the
> revolutionary-political sense of this word appeared in French, it most
> likely appeared in Russian as well.

One could reach further back and come to the Greek enthousiasmós, which has
God inside - hence the religius source of that attitude...

Jan Zielinski

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