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The people of all other nations, but the Jewish, seem to look backwards and / also to exist for the present; but in the Jewish scheme every thing is / prospective and preparatory; nothing, however trifling, is done for itself / alone, but all is typical of something yet to come.
I would rather call the book of Proverbs Solomonian than as actually a work / of Solomon's. So I apprehend many of the Psalms to be Davidical only, not / David's own compositions.
You may state the Pantheism of Spinosa, in contrast with the Hebrew or / Christian scheme, shortly, as thus: --
Spinosism.
/ W-G = 0; _i.e._ the World without God is an impossible idea. / G-W = 0; _i.e._ God without the World is so likewise.
Hebrew or Christian scheme.
/ W-G = 0; _i.e._ The same as Spinosa's premiss. / But G-W = G; _i.e._ God without the World is God the self-subsistent.