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"BEHEMOTH."

(Vol. ix., p. 77.)

Hobbes's _Behemoth_ forms the eighth tract in the collection relating to
the civil wars by the Baron Maseres (1815), and occupies nearly 200 pages.
The Baron, in his Preface (pp. lxxviii., lxxix.) gives the following
character of the work:

"It is written in a very clear and lively style, and contains a great
deal of curious historical matter concerning the rise and gradual
increase of the Pope's power over temporal princes: the prohibition of
marriage in secular priests; the doctrine of transubstantiation; the
institution of auricular confession to a priest; the institution of
Orders of preaching friars; and the institution of Universities and
Schools of Disputation; (all which institutions, he observes, had a
tendency to increase the power of the Pope, and were made for that
purpose,) which is set forth in pp. 467, 468., &c., to p. 472. And much
other interesting matter, concerning the sentiments of the Presbyterian
ministers, the Papists, the Independents, and other sectaries. The
pretensions made by them to Spiritual Power, and the nature of heresies
and the history of them, is clearly and justly described in another
part of it; over and above the narration of the several events of the
civil war itself, which I believe to be faithful and exact in point of
fact, though with a different judgment of Mr. Hobbes as to the moral
merit of the persons concerned in producing them, from that which, I
presume, will be formed by many of the readers of this history at this
day; which difference of judgment between Mr. Hobbes and the present
readers of this work, will be a necessary consequence, from Mr.
Hobbes's having entertained two very important opinions concerning the
nature of civil government in general, and of the monarchical
government of England in particular, which in the present age are
thought, by almost every Englishman who has paid any attention to the
subject, to be exceedingly erroneous."

Subjoined to his reprint of this tract, the Baron has appended remarks on
some particular passages therein, which appeared to him to contain
erroneous opinions.

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge.

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