 Next was "Francis Bacon" (1999), about the English philosopher and courtier, Sir Francis Bacon, that explored the dissonance between the soaring ideals of Bacon's philosophical ambitions and his life as courtier, politician, and lawyer serving in government.A final monograph on Thomas Hobbes, "Hobbes and the Law of Nature", was published posthumously in 2009.Zagorin's last survey work, "How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West" (2003), returned to questions regarding individual belief ranged against those who claimed the right to enforce religious conformity by force if necessary, tracing the emergence of a particular and contested view of a right to freedom of conscience.