The English Works Of Thomas Hobbes Of Malmesbury Volume 1

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... Part iv. a certain fruition of good or evil; as anger is aver DEGREES--r DEGREES--- sion from some imminent evil, but such as is joined and wiii," what with appetite of avoiding that evil by force. But because the passions and perturbations of the mind are innumerable, and many of them not to be discerned in any creatures besides men; I will speak of them more at large in that section which is concerning man. As for those objects, if there be any such, which do not at all stir the mind, we are said to contemn them. And thus much of sense in general. In the next place I shall speak of sensible objects. CHAPTER XXVI. OF THE WORLD AND OF THE STARS. 1. The magnitude and duration of the world, inscrutable.--2. No place in the world empty.--3. The arguments of Lucretius for vacuum, invalid.--4.. Other arguments for the establishing of vacuum, invalid.--5. Six suppositions for the salving of the phenomena of nature.--6. Possible causes of the motions annual and diurnal; and of the apparent direction, station, and retrogradation of the planets.--7. The supposition of simple motion, why likely--8. The cause of the eccentricity of the annual motion of the earth.--9. The cause why the moon hath always one and the same face turned towards the earth. 10. The cause of the tides of the ocean.--11. The cause of the precession of the equinoxes. The magnitude 1. Consequent to the contemplation of sense is th0d TMrid!onin - the contemplation of bodies, which are the efficient causes or objects of sense. Now every object is either a part of the whole world, or an aggregate of parts. The greatest of all bodies, or sensible objects, is the world itself; which we behold when we look round about us from this point of the same Part iv. which we call the e

This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by John Bohn in London, 1839.