NOTES FUGITIVE WRITINGS ON ABSTRACT IDEAS THIS essay was first published along with the second edition (1836) of An Essay on the Principles of Human Action. See Bibliographical Note, vol. vii. p. 384. The source of the essay does not appear to be known, but it very likely formed the substance of one of the Lectures which Hazlitt delivered at the Russell Institution. See ante, pp. 25, et seq. and notes. The title of one of these Lectures (11.) was 'On Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge, and on the Nature of Abstraction.' It has not been thought necessary to give references to all the numerous passages quoted from Locke and other philosophers discussed by Hazlitt. In many cases he himself gives a sufficient reference in the text. 6. The Bishop of Worcester. Edward Stilling fleet (1635-1699), who published three pamphlets in reply to Locke's Essay. For an account of the controversy see Locke's Works (Bohn), 11. 339 et seq. 7. 'General ideas,' etc. Condillac, La Logique, chap. v. 8. To speak,' etc. Ibid. 9. It is agreed on all hands,' etc. All the passages quoted from Berkeley are from the Introduction to A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710). 12. Abstract ideas,' etc. Locke's Essay, iv. vii. 9. ON THE WRITINGS OF HOBBES This and the four succeeding papers were first published in Literary Remains, where the author's son says of them (vol. I. p. 115): The following Essays form part of a series of Lectures delivered with very great effect by my father at the Russell Institution, in 1813. I found them with other papers in an old hamper which many years ago he stuffed confusedly full of Mss. and odd volumes of books, and left in the care of some lodging-house people, by whom it was thrown into a cellar, so damp that even the covers of some of the books were fast mouldering when I first looked over the collection. The injury to the Mss. may be imagined. Some of the Lectures, indeed, to my deep regret, are altogether missing, burnt, probably, by the ignorant people of the house; and I have had the greatest difficulty in preparing those which remain for the press. They are, however, most valuable.' The course, consisting of ten Lectures, was delivered in 1812, not 1813. The syllabus will be found in Mr. W. C. Hazlitt's Memoirs of William Hazlitt, 1. 192 et seq. The first lecture was 'On the Writings of Hobbes, showing that he was the father of the modern system of philosophy.' PAGE 27. They were made fierce, etc. 28. Four champions fierce, etc. 29. It has been generally supposed, post, p. 284. Advancement of Learning, 1. iv. 6. etc. Cf. the essay 'Mr. Locke a Great Plagiarist,' 32. Discourse of Human Nature?' This work, though circulated in мs. as early as 1640, was not published till 1650, the year before the publication of Leviathan. 6 45. This difference of quickness,' etc. Leviathan, part I. chap. viii. Harris, the author of Hermes, etc. Cf. vol. VIII. (The English Comic Writers) p. 19, where the same passages are quoted from Locke, Hobbes, and Harris. 46. Though the effect of folly,' etc. Leviathan, part I. chap. viii. "The foolish daughters of Pelias' [Peleus], etc. Ibid. part II. chap. xxx. The same allusion in Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, 11. 113). 48. Soft collar of social esteem. Ibid. 11. 90. "Order of thoughts, etc. Leviathan, part I. chap. III. "Stood all astonied,' etc. The Faerie Queene, VII. vi. 28. 50. Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), the American theologian and metaphysician, published his work On the Freedom of the Will in 1754. ON LIBERTY AND NECESSITY Lectures VII. and VIII. were 'On the Writers on Liberty and Necessity, and on Materialism.' PAGE Gassendi. Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), the French philosopher and mathematician, with whom Hobbes had been intimate at Paris. 53. Spinoza's most exact and beautiful demonstration, etc. In the Ethica, published in Opera Posthuma (1677). Marsennus. Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), the friend and disciple of Descartes. 54. Bishop Bramhall. John Bramhall (1594-1663), successively Bishop of Derry and Archbishop of Armagh, whose controversy with Hobbes arose in 1655. 57. Tripos. Hobbes's Tripos' (1684) contained, among other things, the essay Of Liberty and Necessity' (1654). · 58. With all these means, etc. Henry IV. Part II. Act 11. Sc. I. 60. Fixed fate,' etc. Paradise Lost, 11. 560. Dr. Priestley. Joseph Priestley's (1733-1804) The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated appeared in 1777. His controversy with Horsley lasted from 1783 till 1790, during which time many letters to Dr. Horsley were published. 71. Something far more deeply interfused,' etc. Borrowed from Wordsworth's Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, 96 et seq. 73. Ille igitur, etc. Cicero, De Fato, xix. 43. ON LOCKE'S ESSAY ON THE HUMAN UNDERSTANDING This appears to have been Lecture 11. of the course. Cf. the essay Mr. Locke a Great Plagiarist,' post, p. 284. |