Leviathan: Or, the Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill by Thomas Hobbes, A. R. Waller

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CHAP. XLV.

Of DÆMONOLOGY, and other Reliques of the Religion
of the Gentiles.

T He impression made on the organs of Sight, by lucide
Bodies, either in one direct line, or in many lines,
. reflected from Opaque, or refracted in the passage
through Diaphanous Bodies, produceth in living
Creatures, in whom God hath placed such
Organs, an Imagination of the Object, from whence the
Impression proceedeth; which Imagination is called Sight;
and seemeth not to bee a meer Imagination, but the Body
it selfe without us; in the same manner, as when a man
violently presseth his eye, there appears to him a light without,
and before him, which no man perceiveth but himselfe; because
there is indeed no such thing without him, but onely a motion
in the interiour organs, pressing by resistance outward, that
makes him think so. And the motion made by this pressure,
continuing after the object which caused it is removed, is that
we call Imagination, and Memory, and (in sleep, and sometimes
in great distemper of the organs by Sicknesse, or Violence)
a Dream: of which things I have already spoken briefly, in the
second and third Chapters.

The Ori-
ginall of Dæ-
monology

This nature of Sight having never been discovered by the
ancient pretenders to Naturall Knowledge; much lesse by those
that consider not things so remote (as that Knowledge is) from
their present use; it was hard for men to conceive of those
Images in the Fancy, and in the Sense, otherwise, than of
things really without us: Which some (because they vanish
away, they know not whither, nor how,) will have to be
absolutely Incorporeall, that is to say Immateriall, or Formes
without Matter; Colour and Figure, without any coloured or
figured Body; and that they can put on Aiery bodies (as a
garment) to make them Visible when they will to our bodily
Eyes; and others say, are Bodies, and living Creatures, but
made of Air, or other more subtile and æthereall Matter, which
is, then, when they will be seen, condensed. But Both of them

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Publication Information: Book Title: Leviathan: Or, the Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill. Contributors: Thomas Hobbes - author, A. R. Waller - editor. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Place of Publication: Cambridge, England. Publication Year: 1904. Page Number: 472.

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The Contents of the Chapters.

The Introduction.

Of Man

Chap. Ii.: Of Imagination.

Chap. Iv.: Of Speech.

Chap. V.: Of Reason, and Science.

Chap. Vi.: Of the Interiour Beginnings of Voluntary Motions; Commonly Called the Passions. and the Speeches by Which They Are Expressed.

Chap. Viii.: Of the Vertues Commonly Called Intellectuall; and Their Contrary Defects.

Chap. Ix.: Of the Severall Subjects of Knowledge.

Chap. X.: Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthinesse.

Chap. Xii.: Of Religion.

Chap. Xiv.: Of the First and Second Naturall Lawes, and of Contracts.

Chap. Xv.: Of Other Lawes of Nature.

Of Common-Wealth.

Chap. Xviii.: Of the Rights of Soveraignes by Institution.

Chap. Xix.: Of the Severall Kinds of Common-Wealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Soveraigne Power.

Chap. Xxi. .: Of the Liberty of Subjects

Chap. Xxii.: Of Systemes Subject, Politicall, and Private.

Chap. Xxiv.: Of the Nutrition and Procreation of a Common-Wealth.

Chap. Xxvi. .: Of Civill Lawes

Chap. Xxvii. of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations.

Chap. Xxix.: Of Those Things That Weaken, or Tend to the Dissolu Tion of a Common-Wealth.

Chap. Xxxi.: Of the Kingdome of God by Nature.

Of a Christian Common-Wealth.

Chap. Xxxiv. .: Of the Signification of Spirit, Angel, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture

Chap. Xxxvi.: Of the Word of God, and of Prophets.

Chap. Xxxvii. .: Of Miracles, and Their Use

Chap. Xxxix.: Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church.

Chap. Xli.: Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour.

Chap. Xliii.: Of What Is Necessary for a Mans Reception into the Kingdome of Heaven.

Of the Kingdome of Darknesse.

Chap. Xlv.: Of DÆmonology, and Other Reliques of the Religion of the Gentiles.

Chap. Xlvii.: Of the Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darknesse, and to Whom It Accreweth.

A Review, and Conclusion.

Alternative Readings.

Index: Of Persons and Places Other Than Scriptural. (the Spelling Is That of the Text.)

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