Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. Thirdly, what is a Christian Commonwealth. Lastly, what is the Kingdom of Darkness. Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, that wisdom is acquired, not by reading of books, but of men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can give no other proof of

LEVIATHAN By Thomas Hobbes 1651 INTRODUCTION NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within, why may we

Thomas Hobbes (1651) Léviathan 5 Épître dédicatoire À mon très honorable ami M. Francis Godolphin de Godolphin Monsieur 1 Retour à la table des matières Votre très digne Frère, M. Sidney Godolphin, trouva bon de penser que mes recherches valaient quelque chose, et également de m'obliger, comme vous le savez,

LEVIATHAN By Thomas Hobbes (1651) Nature has made men so equal, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind then another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that