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The Unique and Powerful Vision of Baruch Spinoza; Professor Wolfson's Long-Awaited Book Is a Work of Illuminating Scholarship THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPINOZA. By Henry Austryn Wolfson. Two volumes. 440-464 pp. Cambridge: The Harvard University Press. $7.50.

By IRWIN EDMAN

July 22, 1934, Sunday

Section: Book Review, Page BR6, 1520 words

SPINOZA is one of those philosophers upon whom no amount of investigation is superfluous and no genuine inquiry without illumination. When the investigation is of such magistral scholarship and pointed clarity as this long-awaited work of Professor Wolfson of Harvard University, it is of moment that it be called to the attention of all laymen with the least pretensions to philosophy. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]

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