Excerpt from Tractatus De Intellectus Emendatione: Et De Via, Qua Optime in Veram Rerum Cognitionem Dirigitur

The Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione, written probably before Spinoza was thirty years old, is so important not only historically, as showing how gradually and consecutively what he had to tell the world was revealed to him, but for its own intrinsic worth, that no excuse is necessary for the attempt to translate and explain it.

It was first published in the Opera Posthuma in 1677, but we do not know what Ms. the editors had before them. They describe it in the general preface as "one of the earlier works of our Philosopher, as the style and thoughts both testify." Prefixed to the Treatise there is also a "Notice to the Reader," to the following effect:-

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