CAS WR 150 Lecture Notes - Johannes Hudde, Johan De Witt, Grand Pensionary
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Most of the other personages who became interested in the free-thinking philosopher were men of less dubious stability of mind (brown 236) Johann hudde, member of the states of holland and mayer of amsterdam: conraad burgh, treasurer-general of the united netherlands, abraham cuffeler, distinguished, young lawyer, hugo boxel, wrote to spinoza trying to prove that ghosts were real. Not all of these great personages were equal to following spinoza"s rationalism . ads yet they evidently all recognized the power of his intellect and the nobility of his character (browne 236) He was eager to converse and correspond not alone with enlightened men in high station, but with all who showed an interest in the pursuit of philosophic truth. So eager was he, indeed, that one more than one occasion he wasted time and ink on men quite incapable of understanding his ideas (browne 237)
