“The famous Mr. John Law, then a youth, afterwards confessed, that the facility with which he saw the passion of speculation communicate itself from all to all, satisfied him of the possibility of producing the same effect from the same cause, but upon a larger scale, when the Duke of Orleans, in the year of the Missisippi, engaged him, against his will, to turn his bank into a bubble.” SpeculationDarienJohn LawMississippi CompanyDuke Of Orleans Book:Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume II Source: Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume II