Anthony Gottlieb opined in 1999 that "Coleridge and Shelley saw in a religion of nature. George Eliot, who translated some of the "Ethics" into English, liked Spinoza for his vehement attacks on superstition. Karl Marx liked him for what he took to be his materialistic account of the universe. Goethe could not say exactly what it was that he liked in the "Ethics," but he knew he was profoundly moved by something or other" even though Goethe admitted to not always understanding Spinoza.