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part I

. chap. III.

‘_Stood all astonied_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, VII. VI. 28.

50. _Jonathan Edwards._ Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), the American theologian and metaphysician, published his work _On the Freedom of the Will_ in 1754.

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._