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In this sympathetic, well-documented, even scholarly biography of Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher outcast by his Jewish community for questioning traditional doctrine, Lehmann covers and interprets the events of his life, including his publications, applauding the way he championed the human faculty of reason. Many period illustrations expand the dense text, though they're often dark and captioned in very small type. Bib., ind.