Benedictus de Spinoza: ...Spinoza is one of those great men whose eminence grows more obvious with the lapse of years. Like a mountain obscured

...Spinoza is one of those great men whose eminence grows more obvious with the — Benedictus de Spinoza

...Spinoza is one of those great men whose eminence grows more obvious with the lapse of years. Like a mountain obscured at first by its foot-hills, he rises as he recedes.

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