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A collection of philosophical writings written in the mid-19th century. This volume focuses on the classic debate over free will, determinism, and chance, centering on Hobbes’s exchange with Bishop John Bramhall. It contrasts Hobbes’s thoroughgoing necessity—grounded in divine will, causation, and foreknowledge—with Bramhall’s defense of a genuinely free human will, drawing on Scripture, scholastic theology, and practical