Excerpt from Hobbes

Small as this volume is, untoward circumstances have prevented its completion till long after the first third of it was already in print. The delay is only too likely to have affected the unity of treatment; still, the original design has been adhered to in the main. That design was, even within such narrow compass, (1) to bring together all the previously known or now discoverable facts of Hobbes's life; and (2) to give some kind of fairly balanced representation of the whole range of his thought, instead of dwelling only upon those humanistic portions of it by which he has commonly been judged. Readers will not proceed far before they apprehend the reason why the account of the "System" has here been imbedded in the "Life," - in departure from the usual order of exposition in books of the kind.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Hobbes (Classic Reprint) (George Croom Robertson)