Powell, Elmer Ellsworth. Spinoza and religion: a study of Spinoza’s metaphysics and of his particular utterances in regard to religion, with a view to determining the significance of his thought for religion and incidentally his personal attitude toward it. *$1.50. Open ct.
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“The aim of this book is to prove that Spinoza was irreligious and his philosophy antireligious.”—Philos. R.
| + | Ind. 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w. |
“The book is clear in style, thorough in execution, and exhibits much logical acumen.” Eugene W. Lyman.
| + | J. Philos. 4: 668. N. 21, ’07. 440w. |
“The author demonstrates his familiarity with the field and his liveliness of interest. The style, furthermore, is excellent, and does much to redeem a book which is otherwise too doggedly iconoclastic to be either stimulating or pleasing.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 487. D. 6, ’06. 1520w. |
“Lacks that spirit of impartiality which is the prime requisite in all critical investigations. Nor does Dr. Powell appear to have studied the philosopher’s writings with enough thoroughness to enable him to grasp the true significance of his teaching.” E. Ritchie.