Charles William Hendel, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics at Yale University, began his Glasgow University Gifford Lectures, under the broad title Politics, in the spring semester of 1962. According to the June 1962 Glasgow University Gazette, his first course of lectures concentrated on the theme ‘The Trial of a Pelagian Faith’. His second course of lectures, on the theme ‘The Limit of Human Power’, were delivered between January and March 1963. While none of the lectures were published, the individual titles of the second series are extant (see Summary below).