English Baroque Realism (1651)
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes • The Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth
THE STATE OF NATURE
Part I • Chapter XIII
"In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation... and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
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Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
First published London, 1651 • Project Gutenberg Public Domain Edition
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