Spinosism

The declaration that the Deity is “the sole Operant” (Religious Musings) is indeed far too bold: may easily be misconstrued into Spinosism; and, therefore, though it is susceptible of a pious and justifiable interpretation, I should by no means now use such a phrase.

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

Spinosism; and he expressed it coarsely and in the way most likely to give offence.

Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822

Bossuet has recourse to Spinosism, and dares make God the substance and sole 'ens reale' of all body, and by this very 'hypothesis' baffles his own end, and does away all miracle in the particular instance.

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

Spinosism; and, therefore, though it is susceptible of a pious and justifiable interpretation, I should by no means now use such a phrase.

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

Strong feeling and an active intellect conjoined, lead almost necessarily, in the first stage of philosophising, to Spinosism.

Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

According to these notions we shall be justified in taxing him with having announced in a very clear, in a most unequivocal manner, that this is nature herself: this indeed is a pure Spinosism; it was decidedly on the principles of Descartes that Spinosa drew up his system; in fact it flows out of it consecutively.

The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756

'hollow faith', and for an 'ambiguous purpose', [29] my mind then wavering in its necessary passage from Unitarianism (which, as I have often said, is the religion of a man, whose reason would make him an atheist, but whose heart and common sense will not permit him to be so) through Spinosism into Plato and St. John.

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

Voltaire, treating upon Spinosism, says: “I am aware that various philosophers, and especially Lucretius, have denied final causes.

The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 Various

Christianity; on another page we find him saying, "My Spinosism (if

Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905

Spinosism it be, and i 'faith 'tis very like it) "; and then comes the solemn assurance:" I am a Berkleyan. "

Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905