A Beginner's History of Philosophy: Modern philosophy

They were but a ragged regiment whose whole ammunition of learning was a
trifle when compared with the abundant stores of a single light of orthodoxy ;
whilst in speculative ability they were children by the side of their antagonists."*
The English deists passed from view at the end of the first half of the eighteenth
century, crushed by the weight of the attack upon them. The more powerful
orthodoxy, with its greater talent, was itself rationalistic, and could beat them on
their own ground.