"To show that all inferences of reason are false or uncertain, and that the understanding acting alone does entirely subvert itself, and prove by argument that by argument nothing can be proved, he has contrived a puppet of mushrooms, cork, cobwebs, gossamer, and other fungous and flimsy materials, to which he gives the name of Reason."
The Castle of Scepticism
Not published in the eighteenth century, but circulated in 1773.<br>
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Text from Ernest Campbell Mossner, "Beattie's 'The Castle of Scepticism': An Unpublished Allegory Against Hume, Voltaire, and Hobbes" <u>Studies in English</u> 27:1 (June 1948): 108-145. &lt;<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/233309513/">Link to JSTOR</a>&gt;