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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) LETTER V. (V.): Oldenburg to Spinoza. - The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, vol. 2
LETTER V. (V.): Oldenburg to Spinoza. - Benedict de Spinoza, The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, vol. 2 [1662]Edition used:The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, translated from the Latin, with an Introduction by R.H.M. Elwes, vol. 2 De Intellectus Emendatione - Ethica. (Select Letters). Revised edition (London: George Bell and Sons, 1901).
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LETTER V. (V.)
Oldenburg to Spinoza.
[Oldenburg sends Boyle’s book, and laments that Spinoza has not been able to answer all his doubts.] Most Respected Friend,—
Please accept herewith the book I promised you, and write me in answer your opinion on it, especially on the remarks about nitre, and about fluidity, and solidity. I owe you the warmest thanks for your learned second letter, which I received to-day, but I greatly grieve that your journey to Amsterdam prevented you from answering all my doubts. I beg you will supply the omission, as soon as you have leisure. You have much enlightened me in your last letter, but have not yet dispelled all my darkness; this result will, I believe, be happily accomplished, when you send me clear and distinct information concerning the first origin of things. Hitherto I have been somewhat in doubt as to the cause from which, and the manner in which things took their origin; also, as to what is the nature of their connection with the first cause, if such there be. All that I hear or read on the subject seems inconclusive. Do you then, my very learned master, act, as it were, as my torch-bearer in the matter. You will have no reason to doubt my confidence and gratitude. Such is the earnest petition of
Yours most faithfully,Henry Oldenburg.
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