Note 644 — Chapter IX · BRUNO IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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“Il desio di conservarsi” of Bruno. Pollock (Spinoza, p. 109) refers to Descartes, Prin. Phil. 2, chs. 37 and 43, and Spinoza’s Cog. Met. (pt. i. ch. 6, § 9), where the “effort” is “the thing itself,” whereas in the essay it is providence, i.e. God. Cf. part i., ch. 5, with Ethica, iii. 6 and 7.