| | | passage = Malice and pejudice concurred in representing the christians{{SIC}} as a society of '''atheists''', who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate. | | | passage = Malice and pejudice concurred in representing the christians{{SIC}} as a society of '''atheists''', who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate. |
| | + | | passage = Spinoza and Hobbes both professed to believe in a God who, to their opponents, is no God at all. The quaint identification of '[[deist]]' with ''''atheist''',' by orthodox writers, is an illustration of the possible divergence of meaning under unity of phrase. |
