OF

MODERN THOUGHT,

OR

Five Hundred Years' Struggle (1200 A.D. to 1699 A.D.)
between Science, Ignorance, and Superstition.

BY

DAVID NASMITH, ESQ., Q.C.

LL.B. (LONDON), AND HON. LL.D. (ST. ANDREWS)
AUTHOR OF "THE INSTITUTES OF ENGLISH LAW," ETC. ETC.

UNIVERSITY

VOL. II.

LONDON.

ORGE PHILIP & SON: 32 FLEET STREET.

NEW YORK.

RLES SCRIBNER'S SONS: 743 & 745 BROADWAY.

1892.

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

HOBBES, THOMAS (1588-1679)-known as the Philosopher of

Malmesbury, born on the 5th April, 1588-His career prior to

the Restoration, 1660 (p. 1)—His character and list of his

principal works (pp. 2-5)-Extracts from his letter to John

Wallis, D.D. (pp. 5-14).

The Leviathan, or the matter, form, and power of a

commonwealth-ecclesiastical and civil.

INTRODUCTION

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Extracts-

PART I.-OF MAN.

Chap. II. Of imagination.

III.-Of the consequence or train of imaginations.

On remembrance; prudence, or providence, fore-

sight, wisdom.

Of signs of conjecture of the time past.

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V.-Of reason and science

VI. Of the interior beginnings of voluntary motions,

commonly called the passions; and the speeches

by which they are expressed

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Of the virtues commonly called intellectual; and

their contrary defects

X.-Of power, worth, dignity, honour, and worthiness.

XI. Of the difference of manners

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XII.—Of religion

XIII. Of the natural condition of mankind as concern-

ing their felicity and misery

XIV. Of the first and second natural laws, and of con-

tracts. The right of nature, what?