Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), To Mr Hobbes

Thou Great Columbus of the golden. Lands of new Philosophies. (Hobbes, Opéra, t. 1, p. v, Str. IV).

2. He [Hobbes] seems to me the most un-English of the great English thinkers, with his love of paradox, his clear-cut intellectual workmanship, his disregard of practical conséquences (W. J. H. Campion, Ouilines..., Lect. II, p. 10-11).