"First, [the scientific movement] produced a 'climate of opinion' in which supernatural and occult explanations of natural phenomena ceased to satisfy, and the universe can more and more to be regarded as the Great Machine, working by rigidly determined laws of material causation. The supernatural, in both its divine and its diabolical forms, was banished from Nature."
-- The Eighteenth-Century Background, Basil Willey, 1940, p. 11.
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