The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 7J. Bohn, 1845 |
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Page 176 - ... own operation. The reason whereof is this, that the science of every subject is derived from a precognition of the causes, generation, and construction of the same; and consequently where the causes are known, there is place for demonstration, but not where the causes are to seek for. Geometry therefore is demonstrable, for the lines and figures from which we reason are drawn and described by ourselves; and civil philosophy is demonstrable, because we mat(e the commonwealth ourselves.
Page 176 - ... are known, there is place for demonstration, but not where the causes are to seek for. Geometry therefore is demonstrable, for the lines and figures from which we reason are drawn and described by ourselves; and civil philosophy is demonstrable, because we make the commonwealth ourselves. But because of natural bodies we know not the construction, but seek it from the effetcs, there lies no demonstration of what the causes be we seek for, but only of what they may be.
Page 232 - ... rotten beneath his feet he has the power of sustaining himself by raising an unseen prop, or somewhat extending his base, without allowing the reader to think that he is employing any art to retain his position. His self-confidence was never disturbed. With unmatched presumption he affirms that he is " the first that hath made the grounds of geometry firm and coherent.
Page 326 - framed the minds of a thousand gentlemen to a conscientious obedience to present government, which otherwise would have wavered in that...
Page 319 - For the conception of the lines and figures .... must proceed from words either spoken or thought upon. So that there is a double labour of the mind, one to reduce your symbols to words, which are also symbols, another to attend to the ideas which they signify.
Page 5 - I did never after, either in writing or discourse, maintain it. There is nothing in it against episcopacy ; I cannot therefore imagine what reason any episcopal man can have to speak of me as I hear some of them do ; as of an athiest, or a man of no religion ; unless it be for making the authority of the church depend wholly upon the regal power; which I hope your majesty will think neither atheism nor heresy.
Page 340 - Do you think I can be an atheist and not know it ? Or knowing it, durst have offered my atheism to the press...
Page 5 - I to do to meddle with matters of that nature, seeing that religion is not philosophy, but law ? It was written in a time when the pretence of Christ's kingdom was made use of for the most horrid actions that can be imagined ; and it was in just indignation of that, that I desired to see the bottom of that doctrine of the kingdom of Christ, which divers ministers then preached for a pretence for their rebellion ; which may reasonably extenuate, though not excuse the writing of it.
Page 67 - Men from their very birth, and naturally, scramble for every thing they covet, and would have all the world, if they could, to fear and obey them.
Page 458 - That which I have written of it is grounded especially upon that wch about 16 yeares since I affirmed to your Lopp at Welbeck, that light is a fancy in the minde, caused by motion in the braine...