R H M ElwesR. H. M. Elwes (Robert Harvey Monro Elwes, 1853-1896) was an English translator and classical scholar best known for his English translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics. His work formed part of the late nineteenth-century effort to make major phiosophical texts accessible to English-speaking readers. Elwes's translation of Spinoza has remained widely used and has contributed significantly to the transmission and study of early modern philosophy in the English-speaking world. Read More Read Less