Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan, chapter
13.
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time or
war where every man is enemy to every man, the
same is consequent to the time wherein men live
without other security than what their own
strength and their own invention shall furnish
them withal. In such condition there is no place
for industry, because the fruit thereof is
uncertain, and consequently no culture of the
earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities
that may be imported by sea, no commodious
building, no instruments of moving and removing
such things as require much force, no knowledge
of the face of the earth; no account of time, no
arts, no letters, no society, and, which is
worst of all, continual fear and danger of
violent death, and the life of man solitary,
poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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