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Reply to Norton's Remarks on Spinoza: A Second Letter

Reply to Norton's Remarks on Spinoza: A Second Letter (Boston: James Munroe, 1840) Inferred

George Ripley (1802–1880) · Boston: James Munroe, 1840

InferredFuller references Ripley's defense of Spinoza in his pamphlet controversy with Andrews Norton, employing a light tone ("fighting the battles of Spinoza and other infidels") that suggests her familiarity with the dispute; as Hudspeth identified.

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
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Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“Mr Ripley would have written you a better, but he is too busy fighting the battles of Spinoza and other infidels.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller references Ripley's defense of Spinoza in his pamphlet controversy with Andrews Norton, employing a light tone ("fighting the battles of Spinoza and other infidels") that suggests her familiarity with the dispute; as Hudspeth identified.