the doctrine of Spinoza, or atheism and pantheism proposed after the manner of Spinoza, who was born a Jew at Amsterdam.

The great principles of Spinozism, is, that there is nothing properly and absolutely existing besides matter and the modifications of matter; among which are even comprehended thought, abstract and general ideas, comparisons, relations, combinations of relations, &c.

The chief articles in Spinoza's system are reducible to these. That there is but one substance in nature; and that this only substance is endowed with an infinite number of attributes, among which are extension and cognition; that all the bodies in the universe are modifications of this substance considered as it is extended; and that all the souls of men are modifications of the same substance considered as cogitative: that God is a necessary and infinitely perfect Being, and is the cause of all things that exist. exist, but not a different being from them: that there is but one being and one nature, and that this nature produces within itself, by an immanent act, all those which we call creatures; and that this being is at the same time both agent and patient, efficient cause, and subject, but that he produces nothing but modifications of himself.

SPIREA, in botany, a genus of the icosandra pentagynia clas. The calyx consists of five segments, and the corolla of five petals; and the capsule contains many seeds. There are eleven species, none of them natives of Britain.