CHAPTER IV

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY REACTIONS

A Law of Thought. Spinoza. A Mechanical Universe spiritually interpreted. _Natura Naturans_, what it means. The _Ethics_. Spinoza's mysticism. His personality. Leibniz and a philosophy of personality. His monads. Pascal. His significance. _The Pensees._ The eternal protest of religion. Man defies the universe. Results 28