Sir Frederick Pollock (1845-1937), Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, is best known as the founding editor of the Law Quarterly Review, and for his correspondence with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the US Supreme Court. This biography of the Dutch philosopher Spinoza (1632-1677) was designed to be accessible to the general reader as well as 'critical students of philosophy', This second edition includes "The life of Spinoza, by Colerus".