“I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted co…”

“I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.”

— Baruch Spinoza

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Title: Wikiquote: Baruch Spinoza
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Ch. 1, Introduction

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Spinoza, Baruch. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Baruch Spinoza. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza

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