65. Absque episcopo Eleusio et paucis cum eo, ex majore
parte Asianae decem provinciae, inter quas consisto, vere
Deum nesciunt. Atque utinam penitus nescirent ! cum
procliviore enim venia ignorarent quam obtrectarent. Hilar.
de Synodis, sive de Fide Orientalium, c. 63, p. 1186, edit.
Benedict. In the celebrated parallel between atheism and
superstition, the bishop of Poitiers would have been
surprised in the philosophic society of Bayle and Plutarch.