"Each hath its proper culture; and as land that is suffered to lie waste and wild for a long tract of time will be overspread with brushwood, brambles, thorns, and such vegetables which have neither use nor beauty; even so there will not fail to sprout up in a neglected, uncultivated mind, a great number of prejudices and absurd opinions, which owe their origin partly to the soil itself, the passions and imperfections of the mind of man, and partly to those seeds which chance to be scattered in it by every wind of doctrine, which the cunning of statesmen, the singularity of pedants, the superstition of fools, or the imposture of priests shall raise."
Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher
 At least 9 entries in ESTC (1732, 1752, 1755, 1757, 1767).<br>
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<u>Alciphron: or, the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion, Against Those Who Are Called Free-Thinkers.</u> (Dublin: Printed for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, 1732). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004854093.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004854093.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher</u> (London: J. Tonson, 1732). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CCIJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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