XXVII. Swedenborg. " But bare knowledge on-

1}^ enters the understanding, and this has not any author- ity over the will, and so is not in man otherwise than as one who stands in the entry, or at the door, and not as yet in the house." T. C. R. page 193, also p. 397.
Spinoza. " The true knowledge of good and evil
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cannot, as truth, [i. e. as " bare knowledge "] restrain any affection, but only in so far as as it is itself consid- ered as an affection." Ethics^ part 4, prop. 14.