[570] II., vii., schol.
[571] III., ix. and xi.
[572] Greek tragedy is just the reverse—an expansion of the old patriarchal relations into a mould fitted to receive the highest thought and feeling of a civilised age.
[573] For the whole subject of Spinoza’s mathematical method, see Windelband’s paper on Spinoza in the Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie, 1877. Some points in the last paragraph were suggested by Mr. Pollock’s Spinoza (pp. 255, 264).
[574] Essay, Bk. iv., ch. 12.
[575] See the references to Epictêtus, supra, p. 21.
[576] What Aristotle has written on the subject is not ethics but natural history.
[577] ‘Ne remarque-t-on comment chaque recherche analytique de Laplace a fait ressortir dans notre globe et dans l’univers des conditions d’ordre et de durée?’—Arago, Œuvres, III., p. 496.