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Malebranche, Nicolas
Entretien d’un philosophe chrétien, et d’un philosophe chinois sur l’Existence & la Nature de Dieu
Paris, Michel David, 1708, 100 x 168 mm., beautiful small full calfskin binding, plates framed with triple gold fillets, rounded corners, small missing lower headband, 36 & 73 pp.
"The philosophy of Father Malebranche having penetrated China, where, it is said, it was tasted, M. de Lionne, bishop of Rosalie, apostolic vicar in that country, engaged him to compose his Entretiens d'un philosophe chrétien et d'un philosophe chinois sur l'existence de Dieu. The journalists of Trévoux, shocked by what he supposed that the Chinese were imbued with atheism, reproached him for favoring Spinozism through his system of the intelligible extension that he admitted in God.."


















