A woman of this nationality promoted female education in The Learned Maid and joined a reform movement led by the Frenchman Jean de Labadie (“la-ba-DEE”). A thinker of this nationality claimed that there would be natural laws “even if God did not exist” and escaped from a castle in a chest of books. Jonathan Israel traced the “radical Enlightenment” to a thinker of this nationality who wrote a “book forged in Hell” that claims that the Bible should be viewed as a fallible historical text. A jurist of this nationality who wrote Mare Liberum is often called the father of international law. An excommunicated thinker of this nationality wrote a book “in Geometrical Order” that equates God and nature. For 10 points, thinkers of what nationality include Hugo Grotius and the author of Ethics, Baruch Spinoza? ■END■
ANSWER: Dutch [accept Netherlandish; accept Netherlands or Dutch Republic or the United Provinces of the Netherlands] (The philosopher in the first sentence is Anna Maria van Schurman.)
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