The Remaining Works of Benedictus de Spinoza

The second volume of Spinoza’s works, which we now communicate to the learned, contains the posthumous remains, first published under the title B. d. S. Opera Posthuma Posthumous Works of B. d. S., the series of which is exhibited after the preface. MDCLXXVII. (614 pages in quarto) edited in such a way that, after the index of matters, there followed the Compendium Grammatices linguae hebraeae Compendium of Hebrew Grammar, of 112 pages. Our first volume anticipated the collection of letters, which in that first edition fills pages 395 through 614, so that the volumes would be sufficiently equal. The rest, which remained, all now carefully reprinted, come to light anew.

In these is the Ethica Ethics, a more copious and pure interpreter of the philosophy which, against the author’s will, is called Spinozistic, to be weighed especially by the repeated meditations of wiser men. The way by which the author progressed toward finding this Ethics is seen from the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, although it was not brought to a finish. With this considered, if anyone, even if they should be very far from the author’s principles