(Ap32:3) If we have a clear and distinct
understanding of this, that part of our nature which is defined
by intelligence, in other words the better part of ourselves,
will assuredly acquiesce in what befalls us, and in such
acquiescence will endeavour to persist. (Ap32:4) For, in so far
as we are intelligent beings, we cannot desire anything save
that which is necessary, nor yield absolute acquiescence to
anything, save to that which is true: wherefore, in so far as
we have a right understanding of these things, the endeavour
of the better part of ourselves is in harmony with the order
of nature as a whole.
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End of "The Ethics - Part IV"
"Joseph B. Yesselman"
August 25, 1997
The Ethics - Part V
Of the Power of the Understanding,
or of Human Freedom
Circulated - 1673
Posthumously Published - 1677
Baruch Spinoza
1632 - 1677
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