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Tractatus Politicus

Tractatus Politicus (pub. posthumously 1677)

Baruch Spinoza (Benedict de) (1632–1677) · pub. posthumously 1677

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Documented 1845

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  • undatedTractatus Politicus (De Democratia, Cap. XI)Demonstrated

    “The following extract from Spinoza is worthy of attention... SPINOZA. TRACTATUS POLITICI, DE DEMOCRATIA, CAPUT XI. "Perhaps some one will here ask, whether the supremacy of man over woman is attributable to nature or custom?”

    Woman in the Nineteenth Century

    Massive excerpted Spinoza text (~200-line span) explicitly labeled as an extract.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p175-177
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“SPINOZA. TRACTATUS POLITICI, DE DEMOCRATIA, CAPUT XI. "Perhaps some one will here ask, whether the supremacy of man over woman is attributable to nature or custom?...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

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