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Feb 10, 2023Liked by Daniel James Sharp

You may agree with this, but in case not, I'm willing to argue Spinoza (1632-1677) was the greatest atheist ever - the most influential and the one contemporary non-believers owe the most.

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"I invite personal attacks because ... I shall not hesitate to employ such attacks against you"

Good god, truly the age of chivalry is gone! That sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. I despair!

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