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(Reason) were more fully developed. ^"^ Agreeing with Hegel that 

 existence was rational, and hence knowable, he saw no reason for 

 invoking a separate Taculty* for what was merely ^the power of 

 constructing hypotheses'. ^^ 



NOTES 



1 F. <2f C, I, 20, Note i. This essay began: 'Spinoza's doctrine has its origin 

 in its method. Acknowledge the method, and the system is invincible or nearly 

 so.' 



2 Extracts are printed in Chevrillon, Taine, pp. 385-388. 



3 V. & C, I, 23. 



4v. & a, 1, 24-25. 



5 See Victor Delbos, 'Le spinozisme en France', which is devoted largely to a 

 critical exposition of Taine's philosophy. 



6 Noted especially as the first French translator of Hegel's Vorlesungen uber 

 die Aesthetik, published in English under the titles of The Philosophy of Art 

 (Hastie, 1886) and The Philosophy of Fine Art (Osmaston, 1920). 



■7 Giraud, Essai sur Taine, pp. 14-15, 289-290. 



8 '. , . as for me, I accept nothing without proof ... I believe that an 

 absolute, interconnected, geometrical science is possible' (F. & C, 36, 47). 



9 V. & a, I, 58-59. 



10 V, & C, I, 48, 25 March, 1849. 



11 V. & C, I, 63. 



12 V. & C, I, no. 



13 V. & C, I, Appendix I, 347-353, prints excerpts. Chevrillon, op. cit., 

 refers to these 'Notes' (which began: 'We are creating here nothing more and 

 nothing less than a metaphysical geometry') as the Ghmetrie metaphysique 

 (p. 63) and also cites 'Notes on Spinoza' (p. 64). 



14 V. & a, I, 115, Note 6. 



15 V. & C, I, 347-348. 



16 V. & a, 1, 349-350. 



1'' From an 'Observation' on Proposition 13: 'The world is contained in 

 force in substance, not in substance considered purely and simply, but in 

 substance considered as having already produced God' (F. & C, I, 351). 



18 V. & C, I, 350. 



19 Chevrillon, pp. 394-395- 



20 Ibid., pp. 396-398. 



21 Ibid., p. 396. 



22 Ibid., p. 398. 



23 Op. cit., p. 506. 



24 F. & C, I, 44, Note 4. 



25 Another one of Taine's notes in his copy of Spinoza (ibid.). 



26 From 'Notes on Spinoza', Chevrillon, p. 64. 



27 Ibid. 



28 Ibid., p. 65. This doctrine of the infinite, as against a static absolute, was 



