Spinozism, however, though it tramples down the barrier between body and soul, is not yet metaphysical idealism, because it does not reduce extension to thought, but only says that the same substance is at once extended and thinking - a position more akin to materialism.
He has six arms, carries weapons and a body, has a headdress of skulls, and tramples a corpse.
The more it grows, the more heavy-handed it becomes and the more it tramples the very rights it purports to protect.
And so they are scandalized when Jesus tramples over their carefully drawn lines, smudges the boundaries, and leaves them in confusion.
