Note 191 — Chapter XXXIV · A.D. 1600-1700. THE JEWS IN HOLLAND.—DA COSTA, SPINOZA.
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It is again proper to remark that this theory is wholly untenable. The operations of the human will are as much acts, as the operations of the human hand. Nero, if Spinoza’s view were correct, could be no more free mentally to conceive wickedness, contrary to God’s will, than he was free manually to perpetrate it.