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into three parts; Part I, treating of "Body and its general properties"; Part II, treating of "Man and his special faculties and affections"; and Part III, treating of "Civil Government and the duties of subjects."

Hobbes remained in England from 1651, the time of his return from France, until 1679, the date of his death. During Cromwell's rule he lived peacefully, having submitted to the government. After the Restoration in 1660, the king, Charles II., his former pupil, who had been alienated from Hobbes by charges of disloyalty and atheism made by others against him, again granted his favor to Hobbes. He was made welcome at the court and was granted a pension by the king. His path, however, was not altogether smooth.. He experienced much annoyance at the hands of the clergy, who took exceptions to his religious and ecclesiastical views – especially as contained in the Leviathan. Furthermore, this closing period of his life brought him into a number of controversies involving much unpleasantness. One of these was with Dr. Bramhall, Bishop of Londonderry. In 1654, in answer to a discourse of the bishop's, he published his work entitled Of Liberty and Necessity, the subject of the controversy being especially the question of the freedom of the will. The controversy continued, and in 1656 Hobbes published Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity, and Chance, again in answer to the bishop. The position on this question taken by Hobbes in this controversy is defined in the following words: "I conceive that nothing taketh beginning from itself, but from the action of some other immediate agent without itself. And that therefore, when first a man hath an appetite or will to something, to which immediately before he had no appetite nor will, the cause of his will is not the will itself, but something else not in his own disposing. So that whereas it is out of controversy, that of voluntary actions the will is the necessary cause, and by