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There is no doubt that we find in his book the ethical sweep upward, and that this is the chief strength and great- ness of it. Herein our philosopher follows the Norm originating in Plato and Aristotle, both of whom have a sphere of Ethics which brings man back to the Idea, or to the Absolute, or to God. The Neo-Platonists in their system show the same ethical return to the Supreme One. The Spinozan form of this return is now what we are to study with some care and fullness, as it is the profoundest fact of his Philosophy. We may again recall to our reader that here lies the third and completing stage of the pro cess of the All (the Pampsychosis). prev next |