... , a reasonable path to salvation? It seems as if that Spinoza thought good government approximated to that of the free burgesses of Amsterdam, a city in which religious toleration and relative political liberty had been realized. He is, therefore, a pioneer of a scientific, in ways humanistic, type of view of government and of the neutrality of the state in matters of belief....

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