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Leibniz And Spinoza.
Avise and their dark sayings" are not considered right to be given to the mixed multitude Avithout . We must draAV to a close ; and perhaps some notice of the interview—the one intervieAV—between Leibniz and Spinoza , may make a fit termination of an article such as this . It Avas on the return of the former from Franceby way of England
, ( where he made a stay of some considerable time ) and Holland , that he visited the latter at the Hague . This visit , as to its time and its particulars , has escaped all the earlier biographers of Leibniz , although the fact was known from an allusion made to it by himself in his " Theoclicsea . " Neither does it appear there that the interview led to any philosophical discussion between
the two . It must , however , be admitted , that Leibniz would hardly haA'e dwelt very much upon it himself ; for Spinoza was in the seventeenth century a very compromising philosopher eA en to visit . Mr . Guhrauer quotes Leibniz , as saying , "I saw M . de la Court as well as Spinoza : I learned from them several good anecdotes of the present time . " This is all ; but
M . de Careil adds , that he had discovered another note of Leibniz , in which he says , " I passed several hours of the afternoon Avith Spinoza ; and he told me that he had endeavoured to go out during the night succeeding the massacre of M . de Witt , to stick upon the Avail , near the place of the massacre , a paper , on which was written , ' Ultimi barbarorum , ' but that his
landlord had prevented his going out , lest he should be torn to pieces by the mob . Spinoza did not see clearly the defects of Descartes' theory touching the laws of motion , and was much surprised when I began to point out to him that they violated the equality of cause and effect . " This intendeAV appears to have had more effect upon Spinoza than upon Leibniz ; for we afterwards find the former saying , " As to the principles of M . Descartes , I find them absurd . "
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Leibniz And Spinoza.
Avise and their dark sayings" are not considered right to be given to the mixed multitude Avithout . We must draAV to a close ; and perhaps some notice of the interview—the one intervieAV—between Leibniz and Spinoza , may make a fit termination of an article such as this . It Avas on the return of the former from Franceby way of England
, ( where he made a stay of some considerable time ) and Holland , that he visited the latter at the Hague . This visit , as to its time and its particulars , has escaped all the earlier biographers of Leibniz , although the fact was known from an allusion made to it by himself in his " Theoclicsea . " Neither does it appear there that the interview led to any philosophical discussion between
the two . It must , however , be admitted , that Leibniz would hardly haA'e dwelt very much upon it himself ; for Spinoza was in the seventeenth century a very compromising philosopher eA en to visit . Mr . Guhrauer quotes Leibniz , as saying , "I saw M . de la Court as well as Spinoza : I learned from them several good anecdotes of the present time . " This is all ; but
M . de Careil adds , that he had discovered another note of Leibniz , in which he says , " I passed several hours of the afternoon Avith Spinoza ; and he told me that he had endeavoured to go out during the night succeeding the massacre of M . de Witt , to stick upon the Avail , near the place of the massacre , a paper , on which was written , ' Ultimi barbarorum , ' but that his
landlord had prevented his going out , lest he should be torn to pieces by the mob . Spinoza did not see clearly the defects of Descartes' theory touching the laws of motion , and was much surprised when I began to point out to him that they violated the equality of cause and effect . " This intendeAV appears to have had more effect upon Spinoza than upon Leibniz ; for we afterwards find the former saying , " As to the principles of M . Descartes , I find them absurd . "