ON LIBERTY AND NECESSITY
Lectures VII. and VIII. were ‘On the Writers on Liberty and Necessity, and on Materialism.’
Gassendi. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), the French philosopher and mathematician, with whom Hobbes had been intimate at Paris. [53]. Spinoza’s most exact and beautiful demonstration, etc. In the Ethica, published in Opera Posthuma (1677). Marsennus. Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), the friend and disciple of Descartes. [54]. Bishop Bramhall. John Bramhall (1594–1663), successively Bishop of Derry and Archbishop of Armagh, whose controversy with Hobbes arose in 1655. [57]. Tripos. ‘Hobbes’s Tripos’ (1684) contained, among other things, the essay ‘Of Liberty and Necessity’ (1654). [58]. ‘With all these means,’ etc. Henry IV. Part II. Act III. Sc. 1. [60]. ‘Fixed fate,’ etc. Paradise Lost, II. 560. Dr. Priestley. Joseph Priestley’s (1733–1804) The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated appeared in 1777. His controversy with Horsley lasted from 1783 till 1790, during which time many letters to Dr. Horsley were published. [71]. ‘Something far more deeply interfused,’ etc. Borrowed from Wordsworth’s Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, 96 et seq. [73]. ‘Ille igitur,’ etc. Cicero, De Fato, XIX. 43.