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.
ON LOCKE’S ESSAY ON THE HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
This appears to have been Lecture II. of the course. Cf. the essay ‘Mr. Locke a Great Plagiarist,’ post, p. 284.
[79]. ‘Discourse of reason.’ Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2 [81]. ‘Without form and void.’ Genesis i. 2.
ON TOOKE’S DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY
Lecture IX. was ‘On the Theory of Language; as treated by Horne Tooke, by the author of Hermes, and Lord Monboddo.’ Cf. vol. IV. (The Spirit of the Age), p. 231, and notes.
[119]. ‘Mere [very] midsummer madness.’ Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 4. [123]. M. Portalis. Jean Étienne Marie Portalis (1745–1807), one of the compilers of the Code Napoléon. ‘Of the little sneering,’ etc. Junius, Letter LIV. ‘Undoes creation,’ etc. Gay, Verses to be placed under the Picture of Sir R. Blackmore. ‘Rebelling angels,’ etc. Marvell, On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost. ‘Holds us a while,’ etc. Ibid. [125]. ‘That honour consists.’ etc. Jonathan Wild, Book I. Chap. 13. [128]. A celebrated German philosopher. Kant. [131]. ‘So from the root,’ etc. Cf. ante, p. 1, where much of this paragraph is repeated. [132]. ‘Has oft been chased,’ etc. Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, l. 5–8.