“Life and the Universe show spontaneity;
Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!
Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;
Truth must be sought with the Positivists.”

—  Mortimer Collins

The Positivists, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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