But, like the barbarian stilicho, the last defender of the foundering Roman world against the barbaric hordes, it was precisely this disbeliever in civilisation who alone undertook to arrest it on the brink of its vast downfall.
"Underground Man"
Gabriel Tarde
Anyway, it was too late now; at the moment when she would disappear, enter into the inert powerlessness of the dead, how could she risk changing so completely the life of that son over whom she would no longer watch, how could she surrender him to his father, who perhaps would make of him a disbeliever and a disenchanted man like himself!
"Ramuntcho"
Pierre Loti
He was not a disbeliever in witchcraft of some kind, nor of action upon men by some invisible intelligences in his own day.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam