Notes by Volunteer

1. Used, in part, with kind permission from: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/Spinoza/TIE/

2. The text is that of the translation of the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione by R. H. M. Elwes, as printed by Dover Publications (NY):1955), ISBN 0–486–20250-X. This text is “an unabridged and unaltered republication of the Bohn Library edition originally published by George Bell and Sons in 1883.”

3. Paragraph Numbers, shown thus 1, are from Edwin Curley’s translation in his “The Collected Works of Spinoza”, Volume 1, 1985, Princeton University Press; ISBN 0–691–07222–1.

4. Sentence Numbers, shown thus (1), have been added by volunteer.

5. Spinoza’s endnotes are shown thus a. The letter is taken from Curley, see Note 3.

6. Search strings are enclosed in square brackets; include brackets.

7. HTML versions of “On the Improvement of the Understanding” are published in the Books On-Line Web Pages; ttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html and they include: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/Spinoza/TIE/ http://www.erols.com/jyselman/teielwes.htm