=9. Immaterialists are Atheists.=--"There are two classes of atheists in the world. One class denies the existence of God in the most positive language; the other denies his existence in duration or space. One says 'There is no God;' the other says 'God is not _here_ or _there_, any more than he exists _now_ and _then_.' The infidel says 'God does not exist anywhere.' The immaterialist says 'He exists _nowhere_.' The infidel says 'There is no such substance as God.' The immaterialist says 'There is such a substance as God, but it is _without parts_.' The atheist says 'There is no such substance as _spirit_.' The immaterialist says 'A spirit, though he lives and acts, occupies no room, and fills no space in the same way and in the same manner as matter, not even so much as does the minutest grain of sand.' The atheist does not seek to hide his infidelity; but the immaterialist, whose declared belief amounts to the same thing as the atheist's, endeavors to hide his infidelity under the shallow covering of a few words.... The immaterialist is a religious atheist; he only differs from the other class of atheists by clothing an indivisible unextended _nothing_ with the powers of a God. One class believes in no God; the other believes that _Nothing_ is god and worships it as such."--Orson Pratt, in pamphlet _Absurdities of Immaterialism_, p. 11. =10. Atheism, a Fatal Belief.=--"During the Reign of Terror, the French were declared by the National Assembly to be a nation of atheists; but a brief experience convinced them that a nation of atheists could not long exist. Robespierre then 'proclaimed in the convention, that belief in the existence of God was necessary to those principles of virtue and morality upon which the republic was founded; and on the 7th of May, the national representatives, who had so lately prostrated themselves before the Goddess of Reason, voted by acclamation that the French people acknowledged the existence of the Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul.'"--_Students' France, xxvii, 6_; quoted by Rev. Charles E. Little, in _Historical Lights_, pp. 280-281.