Spinoza was famously excommunicated after referring to an "eternal or infinite entity that we call God or Nature" (i.e. "Deus sive Natura"- Ethics, IV, Preface, 1677), whereas David Nieto was acquitted of saying: "God, and Nature, Nature, and God, is all one." Why was Spinoza condemned, and Nieto praised in the most important exoneration in history? This is answered in the conversation between Reuben and Simon, by examining the incident along with...