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Updated: June 21, 2025
The minister, Granvella, who, even while absent himself, ruled the Spanish cabinet by his adherents; the Cardinal Grand Inquisitor, Spinosa, and the Duke of Alva, swayed respectively by hatred, a spirit of persecution, or private interest, had outvoted the milder councils of the Prince Ruy Gomes of Eboli, the Count of Feria, and the king's confessor, Fresneda.
"There'll be generations o' lads an' lasses, ma'am, that will rise up in auld Scotland an' go up an' down through a' the warld a' ca' David Lockerby 'blessed." "Franz, good morning. Whose philosophy is it now? Hegel, Spinosa, Kant or Dugald Stewart?" "None of them. I am reading Faust." "Worse and worse. Better wrestle with philosophies than lose yourself in the clouds.
And the reader feels that Diderot has scarcely hit the true line of cleavage that would have enabled him from his own point of view to shatter the Spinosist system. He tries various bouts of logic with Spinosa in connection with detached propositions.
An extreme simplicity in their manner of life was, indeed, characteristic of many a distinguished Hollander William the Silent, Baruch de Spinosa, the brothers de Witt. But the simplicity of Sebastian van Storck was something different from that, and certainly nothing democratic.
Whether he meant this or something else, and whether he would have been right or wrong in such an intention, we may admit that it would have been more satisfactory if in dealing with such a master-type of the metaphysical method as Spinosa, so acute a positive critic as Diderot had taken more pains to give to his objections the utmost breadth of which they were capable.
"Joy," he said, anticipating Spinosa that, for the attainment of which men are ready to surrender all beside "is but the name of a passion in which the mind passes to a greater perfection or power of thinking; as grief is the name of the passion in which it passes to a less."
The article on Leibnitz has less original matter in it than that on Spinosa.
The same want of just inference, the same discrepancy, will obtrude themselves in the principles of the celebrated Father Malebranche; which, if considered with the slightest attention, appear to conduct directly to Spinosism; in fact, can any thing be more in unison with the language of Spinosa himself, than to say, as does Malebranche, "that the universe is only an emanation from God; that we see every thing in God, that every thing we see is only God; that God alone does every thing that is done; that all the action, with every operation that takes place in nature, is God himself; in a word, that God is every being and the only being."
A German emperor had the same notion, when, being cautioned to keep out of the way of a cannonading, he replied, "Tut! man. Did you ever hear of a cannon-ball that killed an emperor?" As to an emperor I cannot say, but a less thing has sufficed to smash a philosoper; and the next great philosopher of Europe undoubtedly was murdered. This was Spinosa.
They made the Palm House an allowance of coal and coke in winter while we poor human beings went without. I used often to come in here on a winter's day to get warm and to forget my sorrows.... "Look at that superb Raphia what fronds! And that Phoenix spinosa and that Aralia " Rossiter: "Bother the Aralia. I haven't come here for a Botany lesson.
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