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Malebranche, Nicholas
 Interview with a Christian philosopher and a Chinese philosopher on the Existence & Nature of God
Paris, Michel David, 1708, 100 x 168 mm., beautiful small full calfskin binding, boards framed with triple gilt fillets, bumped corners, small loss in lower cover, 36 & 73 pp.
« The philosophy of Father Malebranche having penetrated into China, where, it is said, it was appreciated, M. de Lionne, bishop of Rosalie, vicar apostolic in this country, encouraged him to compose his Conversations between a Christian philosopher and a Chinese philosopher on the existence of God. Trévoux’s journalists, shocked by his assumption that the Chinese were imbued with atheism, reproached him for favoring Spinosism through his system of intelligible extension that he admitted in God.

Malebranche, Nicholas  Interview with a Christian philosopher and a Chinese philosopher on the Existence & Nature of God Paris, Michel David, 1708, 100 x 168 mm., beautiful small full calfskin binding, boards framed with triple gilt fillets, bumped corners, small loss in lower cover, 36 & 73 pp. « The philosophy of Father Malebranche having penetrated into China, where, it is said, it was appreciated, M. de Lionne, bishop of Rosalie, vicar apostolic in this country, encouraged him to compose his Conversations between a Christian philosopher and a Chinese philosopher on the existence of God. Trévoux’s journalists, shocked by his assumption that the Chinese were imbued with atheism, reproached him for favoring Spinosism through his system of intelligible extension that he admitted in God.