. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . uch on the Continent, and so cameinto contact with foreign thought; but he still retained his classicalinterests, and issued a translation of Thucydides (1629). He appearsto have also acted as amanuensis to Bacon between 1621-6, buthad little respect for the latters philosophy. In 1634 he becametutor to his first pupils eldest son, the third Earl of Devonshire,with whom he spent the next three years abroad. Here he formedfriendships with Galileo, Gassendi, and especially with Mersenne, inwhose circle he became acquainted with the spe
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . uch on the Continent, and so cameinto contact with foreign thought; but he still retained his classicalinterests, and issued a translation of Thucydides (1629). He appearsto have also acted as amanuensis to Bacon between 1621-6, buthad little respect for the latters philosophy. In 1634 he becametutor to his first pupils eldest son, the third Earl of Devonshire,with whom he spent the next three years abroad. Here he formedfriendships with Galileo, Gassendi, and especially with Mersenne, inwhose circle he became acquainted with the speculative movementinitiated by Descartes. His thoughts were thus turned into philo-sophical channels ; he began to work out a theory of sensation,and to evolve a complete system, which he intended to publish inthree parts, De Corpore, De Honiine, and De Cive. At the outbreakof the Civil War, fearing the consequences of a political pamphletwhich he had written, entitled The Elements of Laiv, Naturaland Politique, he fled abroad. He remained in Paris, and for. THOMAS HOBBICSFrom the portrait by J. M. Wiiglit in the National Portrait Gallery Face t ii(-^ THOMAS HOBBES 227 a short time taught mathematics to Prince Charles; he kept upa constant relationship with Descartes and Mersenne, until 1651when he returned to England, and was driven by his political viewsto compose the Leviathan, which appeared in London in 1651. Thishowever, brought him little favour, as his unorthodox religiousopinions were distasteful both to the Puritans and to the Royalistdivines, through whose influence he had already been forbidden theCourt of Charles II. He was even charged with having writtenthe book as a sop to Cromwell, mainly on the ground that he ex-cuses those who had submitted and compounded for their estates—a fact easily intelligible, since his patron, the Earl of Devonshire, hadtaken this course. He was also accused of atheism and blasphemy,and achieved through the assaults of various eccles
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