Eighteenth-century thinkers misattributed social phenomena to supernatural sources.

Evidence

As recent a period as the eighteenth century explained the great contents of historical life language, religion, the forma- tion of states, material culture essentially, as inventions of single individuals. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 1416

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Victorian ghost stories gave ignorant commoners privileged access to the supernatural — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1120