FOOTNOTES:
[42] Everything which we desire and do, of which we are the cause in so far as we possess an idea of God, or in so far as we know God, I refer to Religion. The desire of doing well which is born in us, because we live according to the guidance of reason, I call Piety.
APPENDIX
Spinoza's Ethics, demonstrated in geometrical order, consists of five parts; from these parts the following selections have been taken:
| Part I. | Of God |
| Definitions, Axioms, and the Appendix. | |
| Propositions: 11; 15-18; 26; 27; 29; 33. | |
| Part II. | Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind |
| Preface, Definitions, and Axioms. | |
| Propositions: 1; 4-7; 11-13; 15-18; 24-26; 28-32; 35; 36; 38-49. | |
| Part III. | Of the Origin and Nature of the Emotions |
| Preface, Definitions, and Postulates; Definitions of the Emotions. | |
| Propositions: 1; 2; 4; 6; 9; 11; 14; 16; 18; 25; 27-32; 40; 41; 43-46; 48-51; 56; 57. | |
| Part IV. | Of Human Bondage or Of the Strength of the Emotions |
| Preface, Definitions, Axioms, and the Appendix. | |
| Propositions: 3-9; 11-27; 38; 39; 41-47; 50-54; 56-58. | |
| Part V. | Of the Power of the Intellect or Of Human Liberty |
| Preface and Axioms. | |
| Propositions: 1-28; 30-42. |
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Transcriber's Notes
Page vii: "affectiones" sic
Page xxvi: "villified" amended to "vilified"
Page xxvii: "chose" amended to "choose" (twice); "forego" sic
Page xxxvi: "antedeluvian" amended to "antediluvian"
Page lix: "goverance" amended to "governance"
Page 1: "oursleves" amended to "ourselves"
Page 6: "superstitition" amended to "superstition"
Page 9: "conprehension" amended to "comprehension"
Page 26: "chose" amended to "choose"
Page 28: "interpretating" amended to "interpreting"
Page 45: "phophet" amended to "prophet"
Page 51: "came" amended to "come"
Page 69: "patriachs" amended to "patriarchs"
Page 84: "refer" amended to "prefer"
Page 135: "appetities" amended to "appetites"
Page 204: "thy" amended to "they" and "thir" amended to "their"
Page 229: "Explanations" amended to "Explanation"
Page 276: "others" amended to "other"
Page 284: "mutitude" amended to "multitude"
Page 362: "propositon" amended to "proposition"
Abbreviations in footnotes and references have been standardized.
Accents and hyphenation have generally been standardised.