Hence a difficulty in interpreting these passages, some persons thinking that the coming of Christ took place at the destruction of Jerusalem; others thinking that it is yet to take place at the end of the world; others, again, maintaining two or more comings of Christ; and others Spiritualizing the whole of it, and making it mean the spread of the spirit of Christianity.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
Or we may state the matter thus: in as far as pure reason can have anything to say in the matter, she ought to incline towards the view of my doctrine Spiritualizing the material, because it is pretty certain that we could know nothing about natural causation-even so much as its existence-but for our own volitions.
"Thoughts on Religion"
George John Romanes
He stands unrivalled for most extraordinary mental powers for allegory and for Spiritualizing, but to compare him with the best of the fathers is faint praise indeed.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3"
John Bunyan