An authoritative edition of George Eliot\'s elegant translation of Spinoza\'s greatest philosophical work In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza\'s Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes.
Later that year, Evans.
This would have become the first edition of Spinoza\'s controversial masterpiece in English, but the translation remained unpublished because of a disagreement between Lewes and the publisher.
An authoritative edition of George Eliot\'s elegant translation of Spinoza\'s greatest philosophical work In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza\'s Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes