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cap not he withdrawn from ^ tliose to > vhom it , has been eQmmitted ; nor can they be . punished for misgovern * menu \ The interpretation of the laws
is to . fo ^ spught , } n 6 , t from the com * mentb of philosophers , but from the authority , of the ruler ; otherwise society would every moment be in danger of resolving itself into the discordant elements of which it was at
first composed . The will of the magistrate , therefore , is to be regjajrded * as the ultimate standard of right and -wrong , and his . voice to be listen ^ , to * by every citizeu as the-voice of
cquscieirce . , NiOt many years afterwards , * -Hoi > be $ ^ pushed the argumen t for the absolute power of princes still further , ui a work to : which he gave the name of Leviatfmm . Under this appellation he'means ; tlae body politic ; insinuating , that man 4 s an uiUameabie beast of
prey , and that government is the strong chain , by j ^ ni ch he is kept fro m mischief * : The fundamental principles vhere-maintained , are the same as in-the book De Cive ; but as it invevghs rnora particularly against
ecdesias / ical tyranny-, with the view of sabj ^ cting the consciences of men to the civil authority , it lost the author the favour of some powerful protectors he had hitherto enjoyed among the English divines who attended Charles 11 . in France ; and he * even
fbund it convenient to quit , that fcingdom > and to return to England , where Cromwell ( to whose government * his political tenets were now as favourable as they were meant to be to the rpyal claims ) suffered him to remain
unmolested , l he same ctrjeumstances operated to * his disadvantage , after the llestorationv and oblig ed , -the king ; who always retained for Him & > very strong attachment , to confer ^ hi& marks of favour on him with the . utmost
reserve and circum « p « ectK >» . .. The details which I havs enteretj into , with respect to the history of Hobbes ' b political writings , will be found , by those who nmy peru ?^ them , to throw much- light < $ n tl *® author V * rea ^ opings * Tndee 4 f it is orily by tbiw considering them in ; their conriexfeti-with the circumstances of
the times , and . the fortua ^ a . jpjf th « i wtkfe # ^ t ) b&t rfo ^ ust notion < pa < n be formtHl of th ^ jflr r epiridand tiiwdcaiuy .
• In 1661 .
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The ethical nrincipW of Robfe ^ a reso completely ibte ¥ Woven with his . political sysVem ; tna ^ t- at ! which has i been saTd ^ . of the . orie may be appliedi to the otner . \ li h very re ' m ^ rkable that Descartek ^ hoiiW have' tiioaght so
highly of the former , as to ^ onouncc Hobbes to be ** a much greater master of morality than of metaphysics ; " a judgment which is of itself sufficient to mark the very low state of ^ Aical science in France about the middle of
the seventeenth cetinary . Mr . Adtli- 1 son , on the orfi ^ r hand , gives a decided preference ( among 4 li the boob written by Hobbes ) to ' -his Treatise on Htthihn Nature ; aiid to his opinion oh
this , point I I rnost itnblieifly subscribe ; this , point rnost itnf » lieifly subscribe ; inctu'ding ; however , itt the > same commendation , ' sorrie of his other philosophical Essistvs on similar topics . They are the o ^ iy pa * t of his ^ vorks which it is' bossioltJ fiow to read with
any interest ; and they every where evince in their author , even whea he thinks iriost tnrrso ^ atiMy himself , that power of setting his reader £ thinking , which is one of the rnost unequivocal marks of original genius . They havo plainly been studied : with the utmost
eare both b y lx > cke and Hame . To the former tliey have suggested some of his most ntiportatit observations on the Association of Ideas , £ & well as much of the sophistry dia p f ^ r ed in the first book of his ilssav on the Origin
ot out Knowledge , anxl ^ m the factitiou ^ nature of otir mofal priftci |) les ; to the latter < amcm ^ a variety bt nints of less consequence ) , 'his theory concerning the * nature Of those established connexions &mortg physical Events , which-it is the Business of the natural
philosopher to ascertairi ; t and the f The , sa ^ e . 4 qftriiie > .-r c » Pccr WS the proper object of natural philosophy [ commanly ascribed ta Mr . . Huiiie , both by l » s foliov . ers ^ d by h \» < 9 ppof \ eots )? is to be found in various Writ ^^! W ^ P 9 r 8 rr is with ncoin
^' ktl ) Hqbbov It stated ^ - tooD lurflcisi ^ o ^^^ qleariiess , in ^ J , CO tit led « I'Sec / nti ? i 9 q ^ ntifipa % , 0 f , QW **** igwanwe ^ the w tjo S ^ nq ^ J& ^ L CUanYtU 4 nnjp ^ d in latZl- i ™ A Z worii in ^ tnoPKiy ipavl * e 4 f ^^ ^ tffiZZ of ae / aoMte , . an ^ ori ^ ifial ,, 3 ^^ % iW" * . ju £ jB <^|* fftX' A 3 . 99 HI 9 w | iafi : » SW ^ f W ^ ^ and , when compare 4 . $ vjt £ J& $ ^*™\ Afc witchccMt , , b y ^ | he _ same » tttb ^ . T , < motbcri |« rt ) of to those jtlready men ; . , ! of thc'iwsible union ot the highest iw .
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632 Estimate of the Philosophical Character 6 f Holies .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1816, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2458/page/4/
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