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it found access where any clearly materialistic doctrine would have been tabooed; so that we find the Cartesian ecclesiastic Régis not only eagerly listened to and acclaimed at Toulouse in 1665, but offered a civic pension by the magistrates [592]--this within two years of the placing of Descartes's works on the Index. After arousing a similar enthusiasm at Montpellier and at Paris, Régis was silenced by the Archbishop, whereupon he set himself to develop the Cartesian philosophy in his study. The result was that he ultimately went beyond his master, openly rejecting the idea of creation out of nothing, [593] and finally following Locke in rejecting the innate ideas which Descartes had affirmed. [594] Another young Churchman, Desgabets, developing from Descartes and his pupil Malebranche, combined with their