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1684 · 2329099 — Rotterdam: Chez Reinier Leers 1684. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Revised edition of the work first published in 1680. Boards lightly soiled edges rubbed with top corner and bottom edge exposed. 1684 Hard Cover. 336 4 46 pp. Vellum binding with yapped fore edge. Treatise on Nature and Grace by the author of The Search for Truth together with a defense of the author. Both were published anonymously by Nicolas Malebranche a Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher whose attempt to synthesize St. Augustine's and Descartes' views was meant to demonstrate God's active role in all world affairs. Building on the ideas about the nature and abilities of God that he presented in The Search for Truth Malebranche here expounds on the nature of God's volition and God's activity in the natural world and interaction with human beings. At the behest of critic and Cartesian philosopher Antoine Arnauld and his supporters this work was placed on the Roman Catholic Church's Index of Prohibited Books in 1690. The two had engaged in an extended polemic against one another following the publication of the treatise of which Malebranche's Defense is but one example and several of Arnauld's works were also banned as was Malebranche's The Search for Truth though not until 1709. Chez Reinier Leers hardcover