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Title: The work of the Open Court Publishing Co. : an illustrated catalogue of its publications covering a period of twenty-one years (1887-1907) consisting of a complete book list with brief characterizatiion of authors and contents, including also a selection of noteworthy articles from the Monist and the Open court
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Open Court Publishing Company. Chicago
Subjects: Philosophy Catalogs, Publishers' -- United States
Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thoughts conveyed to us in the smooth and scholarly English of I\lr.Suzuki are hoth instructive and interesting. His views of life and of thehighest metaphysical problems are well worth careful consideration. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Buddhism is generally so misrepresented in the official accounts of it givenin encyclopedias and works of reference that take their articles on this sub-ject from Christian clergymen, that a work like this whi;h exhibits itsteachings from the inside is sure of a welcome from thoughtful and fair-minded readers.—Scotsman. ARTICLES BY ABBOT SHAKU. At the Battle of Xan-Shan Hill. Open Court. \ol. XVHI, No. 583, p. 705.Buddhist \iew of War. Open Court. \ol. XMII, No. 576, p. 274.A Controversy on Buddhism. Open Court. \ol. XI, Xo. 488, p. 43.The Doctrine of Xirvana. Open Court. \ol. X, No. 487, p. 5167.Japanese Caligraphy. Open Court. Xo). XIII, X^o. 513, p. 120.The Universality of Truth. Monisf. Vol. IV, p. 161. 153 THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., CHICAGO.
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BENEDICTUS DE SPINOZA.Frontispiece to The Open Court, July, 1906. 164 THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., CHICAGO. BENEDICTUS DE SPINOZA. (1632-1677.) In the history of philoso/^hy Spino::as name stiuids ijiseparably asso-ciated icifh pantheism, if it has not become practically synonymousicith that term. lie leas born in Holland, of Jewish paroita^^e, andthe etiect of the constant persecution of his orthodox co-relii^ioniststhrou^hoiit his lifetime is seen iu the frequently ambiguous and evencontradictory expressions in his writinjj^s, nhich sJioiv a timiditythat is quite in contrast to his singularly bold and adzanced thought,llie meaning of Spinozas philosophy is not alieays openly expressed,but lies concealed beneath in his writings. I^or a critical characterization of the man and liis Ixliefssee Spinoca and Reiigio)i. Wy Elmer Ellsworth Powell,described on jiage 140. The Principles of Descartes Philosophy. By Benedictus de Spinoza. Translated from the Latin, andwith an introduction by

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