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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Liberalism, Part IV
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 01:23:00 EST
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Nf-From: inmet.UUCP!janw    Mar 16 01:23:00 1986


Correcting a misleading phrase:

>>The Panglossian secularization of the above ("All is for the best in
>>the best of all possible worlds") was the intellectual foundation of
>>early conservatism, and was mercilessly ridiculed, from an
>>uncompromising classical Liberal perspective, by Voltaire.

[me]
>Pangloss was, of course, a caricature of  Leibnitz's  philosophy,
>not Spinoza's. (To whom the quote above belongs).  Voltaire had a
>high opinion of Spinoza (without really understanding him).

I meant that the quote is of Leibnitz, not Spinoza.  Spinoza  be-
lieved all exists that is possible, not just the "best".