CONTENTS [NOTE.-Throughout this Table and the Index the abbreviation Sp. is Sp.'s training in youth: Van den Ende. Difficulties with the synagogue Attempt on Sp.'s life: excommunication Reply to Van Velthuysen's criticism on Tractatus Theologico- Later correspondence with Van Velthuysen as to publication Self-preserving effort (natural law) General view of sources of these ideas Uniformity: the Essay on God and Man XNot Cartesian in metaphysics . Sp.'s metaphysics developed from theology Influence on Sp. most important in physics Sp.'s "things immediately produced by God" Derivation of principle of self-conservation from Descartes Sp.'s gradual divergence from Descartes in psychology. |