Spinoza e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. My indebtedness to the great and exhaustive treatise of Sir Frederick Pollock on Spinoza, His Life and Philosophy, can hardly be sufficiently acknowledged. But I trust it is evident in the following pages. Still my own experience suggests that, for those who are specially interested in the religious evolution of our own day, there is needed a 'handbook to the Ethics which shall keep that evolution specially in view. This I have endeavoured to supply, measuring the wants of others by my own needs.