"All atheists being that blind Goddess Nature's fanatic . . . are possessed with a certain kind of madness, that may be called Pneumataphobia, that makes them have an irrational but desperate Abhorrence from Spirits or Incorporeal Substances, they being acted also, at the same time, with a Hylomania, whereby they madly dote upon Matter, and devoutly worship it, as the only Numen."
-- The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Ralph Cudworth, London, 1678, [Bk. I, Ch. iii, Sect. xix, pp. 134 f.], cited in Shaftesbury's Philosophy of Religion and Ethics: A Study of Enthusiasm, Stanley Grean, 1967, p. 29.
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