Spinoza: His Life, Correspondence, Ethics (Robert Willis, 1870, Tröbner + Co)

Willis’ translation of Ethics omits credit to George Eliot’s earlier version, unpublished until recently. Spinoza reconceptualises the geography of thought. His Ethics maps human passions and desire within the contours of nature. “For those who read the very words Spinoza wrote there is the same sort of interest in his style as in the conversation of a person of great capacity who has led a solitary life, and who says from his own soul what all the world is saying by rote.” – George Eliot.