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A woman of this nationality promoted female education in The Learned Maid and joined a reform (10[1])movement led by the Frenchman Jean de Labadie (“la-ba-DEE”). A thinker of this nationality claimed that there would be natural laws “even if God did not exist” and escaped from a castle in a chest of books. (10[1])Jonathan (-5[1])Israel traced the (10[1])“radical (10[1])Enlightenment” to a thinker of this nationality (-5[1])who wrote (10[1])a “book forged in Hell” (10[2])that claims that the Bible (-5[1])should be (10[1])viewed as a fallible historical text. A jurist of this (10[1])nationality who wrote Mare Liberum (10[4]-5[1])is often (10[1])called (10[1])the father (10[1])of international (10[3])law. (10[6])An (10[1])excommunicated thinker (10[1])of this nationality wrote a book (-5[1])“in Geometrical Order” (10[3])that equates God and nature. (10[3]-5[2])For 10 points, (10[3]-5[1])thinkers of what nationality (10[2])include Hugo Grotius (10[3]-5[2])and the author of Ethics, (10[1])Baruch (10[1])Spinoza? (10[5]-5[1])■END■ (10[9]0[7])

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