[Footnote 1: The quotations from More’s Latin autobiography occur in the _Opera Omnia_ (London, 1675-79), portions of which Richard Ward translated in _The Life of . . . Henry More_ (London, 1710). Cf. the modern edition of this work, ed. M. F. Howard (London, 1911), pp. 61, 67-68, the text followed here. There is a recent reprint of the _Opera Omnia_ in 3 volumes (Hildesheim, 1966) with an introduction by Serge Hutin. The “Praefatio Generalissima” begins vol. II. 1. One passage in it which Ward did not translate describes the genesis of _Democritus Platonissans_. More writes that after finishing _Psychathanasia_, he felt a change of heart: “Postea vero mutata sententia furore nescio quo Poetico incitatus supra dictum Poema scripsi, ea potissimum innixus ratione quod liquido constaret extensionem spacii dari infinitam, nec majores absurditates pluresve contingere posse in Materia infinita, infinitaque; Mundi duratione, quam in infinita Extensione spacii” (p. ix).] [Footnote 2: Cf. Lee Haring’s unpub. diss., “Henry More’s _Psychathanasia_ and _Democritus Platonissans_: A Critical Edition,” (Columbia Univ., 1961), pp. 33-57.] [Footnote 3: Marjorie Hope Nicolson’s various articles and books which in part deal with More are important to the discussion that follows, and especially “The Early Stage of Cartesianism in England,” SP, XXVI (1929), 356-379; _Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory_ (Ithaca, 1959), pp. 113-143, and _The Breaking of the Circle_ (New York, 1960), pp. 158-165.] [Footnote 4: Cf. _The Meditations and Selections from the Principles of René Descartes_, trans. John Veitch (Chicago, 1908), p. 143. The quotations from the letters which follow occur in Alexandre Koyré’s very helpful book, _From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe_ (Baltimore, 1957), pp. 114, 122-123, but the complete and original texts can be consulted in Descartes, _Correspondance avec Arnaud et Morus_, ed. G. Lewis (Paris, 1953).] [Footnote 5: This passage occurs at the beginning of “The Easie, True, and Genuine Notion, And consistent Explication Of the Nature of a Spirit,” a free translation of _Enchiridion Metaphysicum_, I. 27-28, by John Collins which he included in Joseph Glanvil’s _Saducismus Triumphatus_ (London, 1681). I quote from the text as given in _Philosophical Writings of Henry More_, ed. F. I. MacKinnon (New York, 1925), p. 183.] [Footnote 6: Cf. _Enchiridion Metaphysicum_, VIII. 8, trans. Mary Whiton Calkins and included in John Tull Baker, _An Historical and Critical Examination of English Space and Time Theories_ . . . (Bronxville, N.Y., 1930), p. 12. For the original, cf. _Opera Omnia_, II. 1, p. 167.] [Footnote 7: “_Infinitum_ igitur hoc _Extensum_ à Materia distinctum,” _Enchiridion Metaphysicum_, VIII. 9, in _Opera Omnia, loc. cit._ Quoted by MacKinnon, p. 262.] [Footnote 8: This and the following reference appear in _An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness_ (London, 1660), “To the Reader,” pp. vi and v.]