They implied that he was insolent, pretentious, and given to that reckless innovation for the sake of noise and show which was the essence of the charlatan.
Like the charlatan who counterfeits a spiritual force he has sometimes felt, they lose the power they have abused.
He adopted some of Friedland's charismatic traits and for a few years treated him almost like a guru—until he began to see him as a charlatan.
