Abarbanel, Leon, 96

Aboab, Isaac, de Fonseca, chief of the Am-
sterdam synagogue, 6

— deluded by Sabbatai Zevi, 28
Amsterdam, foundation of Jewish settlement

at, 3

— building and opening of synagogues, 4
Apparitions, Sp.'s opinion of, 58
Aristocracy, Sp.'s ideal scheme of, 311

— his conjecture as to historical origin of,

3".
Aristotle, his doctrine of intellectual im-
mortality, 270

Arnold, Matthew, his essay on Tract. TheoL-
Pol., 31, 378

Association, doctrine of, in Sp., 183

Atheism repudiated by Sp., 66

Attributes, Sp.'s definition of, 149, 152

— parallelism of, 156, 160

— theory of, criticised by Tschirnhausen,

Auerbach, Berthold, his translation of Sp.,
and his Spinozism in literature, 372

Auxilia imaginationis, 171

Avenarius, Dr. Richard, his essay on Sp.'s
philosophical development, 86

Averroes, on "active intellect" and im-
mortality, 271

Avicebron (Ibn-Gebirol), Jewish Neo-Plato-
nist ; his Fons Vitae, used and cited by
Giordano Bruno, 96

Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, his belief in
an art of discovery, 299

— surmised influence of, on Sp., 119, n.
Balling, Peter, translator of Principia
Philosophiae, 55

— letter of Sp. to him on omens, 56
Bayle, Pierre, his article on Sp., 361
Ben Israel. See Manasseh ben Israel
Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne, his

mention of Sp., 355

— on waste in nature, 232
Bernis, Cardinal de, refutes Sp., 361
Blackmore, Sir Richard, his confutation of

Sp., 359 ..
