idolisers

Updated: May 29, 2025

They must be wonderfully deficient of the invaluable sense so falsely called 'common. Idolisers of 'thingless names, they set at naught the admirable dictum of Locke, that it is 'unphilosophic to suppose names in books signify real entities in nature, unless we can frame clear and distinct ideas of those entities.

Charles Southwell - An Apology for Atheism: Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination: by One of Its Apostles