some young students, finding them full of gall, will mistake for salt. Therefore to disabuse those young men, and to the end they may not admire such kind of wit, I have here and there been a little sharper with you than else I would have been. If you think I did not spare you, but that I had not wit enough to give you as scornful names as you give me, are you content I should try? Yes (you the geometrician will say) give me what names you please, so you call me not _Arithmetica Infinitorum_. I will not. Nor _Angle of Contact_ ; nor _Arch Spiral_ ; nor _Quotient_ . I will not. But I here dismiss you both together. So go your ways, you _Uncivil Ecclesiastics, Inhuman Divines, Dedoctors of morality, Unasinous Colleagues, Egregious pair of Issachars, most wretched Vindices and Indices Academiarum_; and remember Vespasian’s law, that it is uncivil to give ill language first, but civil and lawful to return it. But much more remember the law of God, to obey your sovereigns in all things; and not only not to derogate from them, but also to pray for them, and as far as you can to maintain their authority, and therein your own protection. And, do you hear? take heed of speaking your mind so clearly in answering my _Leviathan_, as I have done in writing it. You should do best not to meddle with it at all, because it is undertaken, and in part published already, and will be better performed, from term to term, by one Christopher Pike. ΣΤΙΓΜΑΙ Αγεωμετρίας, Αγροικίας, Αντίπολιτείας, Αμαθείας, OR MARKS OF THE ABSURD GEOMETRY, RURAL LANGUAGE, SCOTTISH CHURCH POLITICS, AND BARBARISMS OF JOHN WALLIS, PROFESSOR OF GEOMETRY AND DOCTOR OF DIVINITY. BY THOMAS HOBBES, OF MALMESBURY. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY, LORD PIERREPONT, VISCOUNT NEWARK, EARL OF KINGSTON, AND MARQUIS OF DORCHESTER. ========== MY MOST NOBLE LORD,