One does not wonder to find among the general characteristics of those writers who admire Bacon as a materialist, the most utter incapacity of philosophising on Bacon's method, the very restless conceit, the hasty generalisation, the hankering after cosmogonic theories, which Bacon anathematises in every page.
"Sermons on National Subjects"
Charles Kingsley
The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs its daily duties.
"Autobiography of a YOGI"
Paramhansa Yogananda
As Mr. Lang says: "all the cosmogonic myths waver between the theory of construction, or rather of reconstruction and the theory of evolution very rudely conceived."
"Folklore as an Historical Science"
George Laurence Gomme