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A woman of this nationality promoted female education in The Learned Maid and joined a reform 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. Jonathan Israel traced the “radical Enlightenment” to a thinker of this nationality who wrote a “book forged in Hell” that claims that the Bible should be viewed as a fallible historical text. A jurist of this nationality who wrote Mare Liberum is often called the father of international law. An excommunicated thinker of this nationality wrote a book “in Geometrical Order” (10[1])that equates God and nature. For 10 points, thinkers of what nationality include Hugo Grotius and the author of Ethics, Baruch Spinoza? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Dutch [accept Netherlandish; accept Netherlands or Dutch Republic or the United Provinces of the Netherlands] (The philosopher in the first sentence is Anna Maria van Schurman.)
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TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
California2025-02-013100%0%74.67
Florida2025-02-013100%67%122.67
Great Lakes2025-02-016100%17%114.83
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01683%17%102.80
Midwest2025-02-016100%17%91.50
North2025-02-013100%0%107.00
Northeast2025-02-015100%0%116.80
Overflow2025-02-015100%20%104.00
South Central2025-02-012100%0%113.50
Southeast2025-02-01367%33%126.00
UK2025-02-011090%20%104.22
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01786%29%115.67
Upstate NY2025-02-01367%0%123.50