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"The True Intellectual System of the Universe"
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Date: 1678, 2nd edition in 1743
"But as for that prodigious paradox of Atheists, that cogitation itself is nothing but local motion or mechanism, we could not have thought it possible, that ever any many should have given entertainment to such a conceit, but that this was rather a meer slander raised upon Atheists."
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)