[24] Simeon Friderich Rues, Mennoniten und Collegianten (Jena, 1743), p. 244.
[25] See E. S. Haldane, Descartes, His Life and Times (1905), pp. 51-53.
[26] The autobiographical account of this experience is given in the opening of part ii. of the Discourse on Method.
[27] Descartes' famous argument is found in Meditations III. and IV. of his Meditations on First Philosophy, first published in 1641. For an illuminating interpretation of the entire movement, see Edward Caird's Essay on Cartesianism in Essays on Literature and Philosophy (1892), ii. pp. 267-383.
[28] Spinoza, Short Treatise on God, Man, and his Well-Being, Wolf's edition (London, 1910), p. 102.
[29] Ibid. p. 40.
[30] Ethics, part ii. Preface.
[31] See Spinoza's Correspondence, Letter No. XXX.
[32] Benjamin Furley, a Quaker merchant of Colchester, then living in Rotterdam.
[33] The Light upon the Candlestick, p. 8, freely rendered.