Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote

They did not like to retain God in their knowledge (Rom. i. 28), and though they could not extinguish the Light that lighteth every man, and which shone in the darkness; yet because the darkness could not comprehend the Light, they refused to bear witness of it, and worshipped, instead, the shaping mist, which the Light had drawn upward from the ground (i. e., from the mere animal nature and instinct), and which that Light alone had made visible (i. e., by super-inducing on the animal instinct the principle of self-consciousness)

Aids to Reflection (1873), footnote to Aphorism 106 part 13