The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
Spinoza Monument
Amsterdam made Spinoza and then cast him out. I read that statue as the city arguing with itself about how much freedom it could stand.
A 2008 bronze of Baruch Spinoza near where he was born and, in 1656, expelled by his own community for heresy. The city that shaped Europe's boldest mind.
— Femke, The Historian
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