...st, and became for a time almost intoxicated with the originality and beauty of his thoughts. While still under his influence I spoke of him to Mr. Bancroft as der unentbehrliche, the indispensable Spinoza . He demurred at this, acknowledged Spinoza's analysis of the passions to be admirable, but assured me that Kant alone deserved to be called indispensable; and this dictum of his made me resolve to ...