Spinoza wrote in his *Ethics* that:

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This so as to deny a categorical difference between man and nature; Spinoza affirms that man is continguous with nature - not set apart: man is not an exception (and thus in Schmitts language cannot be sovereign).

But there is a different meaning of this exempified by Newtons *Gravitas* which is *Universal* (transcending Aristotles division of celestial and terrestial realms); is Spinoza affirming too this discovery of Newton, or does he supply a reason that this must be true; if not - can one be supplied?

(In modern physics this universality is 'broken', now we have the classical and quantum realm and one might suppose that a rationale behind healing this division is to return us to Newtons utopian universality).