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A Spinozist to the core, he believes in individual luck, not in liberty, nor in responsibility.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Notwithstanding his protest, many of his contemporaries still found remnants of Spinozist pantheism.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

The Spinozist doctrine of spontaneity, as Mr. Picton points out, means that the individual follows an impulse which "has its antecedents . . . in the chain of invariable sequences."

From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Warschauer, Joseph

He can be called a Spinozist only by those who, like Jacobi, have this title ready for everyone who expresses himself against a transcendent, personal God, and the unconditional freedom of the will.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

Goethe, a Spinozist who did not believe in Spinoza, said that he could bring his mind to the conception that in the centre of space we might meet with a monad of pure intelligence.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright