The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
ATTRIBUTION:
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (16231677), Dutch pantheistic philosopher. Ethics, bk. II, prop. vii, On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 66, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955).
Spinozas Ethics was one of the most revolutionary texts of modern philosophy.