Thomas Hobbes, De Cive, 1647 [ Concepts ]
… Part I: Liberty Chapter I Of the State of Men Without Civil Society I. The faculties of Humane nature may be reduc'd unto … of Humane Peace; that is to say, (changing the words onely) what are the fundamentall Lawes of Nature. II. The greatest part of those men who have written ought concerning Commonwealths, either suppose, or require us, or beg of us to believe, … offence; yet it is manifest they are not so much delighted with the Society, as their own Vain glory. But for the most part, in these kind of meetings, we wound the absent; their whole life, sayings, actions are examin'd, judg'd, condemn'd; …
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