Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Study of Spinoza I am indebted to the kindness and special learning of Mr. Joseph Jacobs for an introduction to some of the critical writings which have been useful to me, particularly those of J 061, Van der Linde, and Land; and sincerely thank him for thus enlarging my acquaintance with the more recent Spinozistic literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.