The Metaphysical System of Hobbes Author:Thomas Hobbes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (posthumous Works.) 1681. T. Hobbes Malmesburiensis Vita. Op. Lat. I. A prose life, attributed to Hobbes. See, also, for personal allusions, all the contro... more »versial writings of Hobbes; and for a few letters, E. W. VII. and Op. Lat. V. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. For references to contemporary criticism of Hobbes, usually unsympathetic and often violent, see R. Blackbourne, Vitae Hobbianae Auctarium (1681), Op. Lat. I., p. Ixix. seq. For references to works of exposition and of criticism, from the later seventeenth century onward, see Sneath, " The Ethics of Hobbes" (1898), Introduction, p. xii. seq.; Robertson, (l) "Hobbes" (1886), chaps. IX. and X., (2) article in Encycl. Brit., gth ed., vol. XII., footnotes. The most useful of recent works on the life, writing and system of Hobbes include the books, just mentioned, of Robertson and of Sneath, and the following: "Hobbes" (1904), by Leslie Stephen, and "Hobbes, Leben und Lehre," (Stuttgart, 1896) by F. Tonnies, and Woodbridge, " The Philosophy of Hobbes in Extracts and Notes from his Writings" (1903). ELEMENTS OF PHILOSOPHY. THE FIRST SECTION, CONCERNING BODY, WRITTEN IN LATIN THOMAS HOBBES OF MALMESBURY, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. THE TRANSLATOR TO THE READER. If, when I had finished my translation of this first section of the Elements of Philosophy, I had presently committed the same to the press, it might have come to your hands sooner than now it doth. But as I undertook it with much diffidence of my own ability to perform it well; so I thought fit, before I published it, to pray Mr. Hobbes to view, correct, and order it according to his own mind and pleasure. Wherefore, though you find some places enlarged, others altered, and two chapters, XIII and XX, almost wholly changed, you may neverthel...« less