Philosophical Quest for Truth (in 17th-c. European philosophy)

Willey, Basil. Ch. V, "The Philosophical Quest for Truth—Descartes," and ch. VI, "The Philosophical Quest for Truth—Hobbes." In The Seventeenth Century Background. New York: Columbia UP, 1935. Garden City, NY: Anchor-Doubleday, 1953.

On the effects on "literary developments in England after the middle of the seventeenth century" of the methodical thinking of R. Descartes and "the perfection of his mechanised [sic] universe" (94-95 of Doubleday rpt.). Also treats the influence of the militant materialism and determinism of T. Hobbes (Descartes and Hobbes cited above, this Category).