Toland, John:
Letters to Serena : containing, I. The Origin and Force of Prejudices. II. The History of the Soul's Immortality among the Heathens. III. The Origin of Idolatry, and Reasons of Heathenism. As also, IV. A letter to a Gentleman in Holland, showing Spinoza's system of Philosophy to be without any Principle or Foundation. V. Motion essential to Matter; in Answer to some Remarks by a Noble Friend on the Confutation of Spinoza. To all which is Prefix'd, VI. A Preface; being a Letter to a Gentleman in London, sent together with the foregoing Dissertations, and declaring the several Occasion of writing them. By Mr. Toland. Opinionum commenta delet Dies, Naturae Judicia confirmat. Cic. de Nat. Deor. l. 2. London; Printed for Bernard Lintot at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleet-street. M.DCC.IV.

London : Lintot, 1704. - XXVI, 239 pp.

Mention of Spinoza: Letter IV. To a Gentleman in Holland, showing Spinosa's System of Philosophy to be without any Principle or Foundation: 131-162 ; Motion essential to Matter, in Answer to some Remarks by a Noble Friend on the Confutation of Spinoza: 163-139 (zwei kurze Erwähnungen/two brief references)
Other editions / translations: Erneut/again: Reprint of the 1704 ed. - London [e.a.] : Lintot, 1976. - 239 pp. - (British philosophers and theologians of the 17th & 18th centuries ; 58) // Faksimile-Neudr. der Ausg. London 1704 / mit einer Einleitung von Günter Gawlick. - Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1964. - 239 pp. // Ed. Ian Leaks. - Dublin : Four Courts, 2013 // [Letter IV] unter d. Titel/entitled: Spinoza's groundless system, in: Boucher (1999), Vol. 1: [44]-51
Deutsch/German (1959)
Französisch/French (1768, 2004) ,

Literature type: Letters, Diaries, Notes
Language: English
Thematic areas: Theology / biblical hermeneutics / philosophy of religion, Reception history
Subject (individuals): Bayle, Pierre

Reviews: Anonymus (1749)

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