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Spinoza (BARUCH the inherent cause)

BARUCH the inherent cause of the universe, is permint, etc., because formerly prepared one absolutely infinite substance, of which all the several parts which we recognize are but finite expressions; that man, being but a part of this greater whole, has neither a separate existence nor a self-determining will; but that he can, by means of knowledge and love, so far control his passions as to enter into the joy which springs from this idea of an all-embracing God. He died February 21, 1677.