He was 55 defended by three attorneys of high repute in criminal jurisprudence, but the young Circuit Attorney proved equal to the emergency, and a conviction was secured.
— from The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

“I believe,” says Mr. C. Hall, “that as it now exists, Spiritualism has mainly but one purpose—to confute and destroy Materialism, by supplying sure, and certain, and palpable evidence that to every human being God gives a soul, which He ordains shall not perish when the body dies.”
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

There is evidence that Charles II, at least up to the time of his becoming a Catholic, and probably even to the end, was at heart a deist.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson