I call a thing free which exists and acts by the sole necessity of its own nature; and I call that compelled which is determined by something else to exist and act in a fixed and determinate manner.
— Baruch Spinoza Early Modern

Rationalist philosophy

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Ethica, Part I, Definition VII

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1677

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm#link2H_4_0066

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