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De Cive
by Thomas Hobbes
1651


Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society. Or, A
Dissertation Concerning Man in his severall habitudes and
respects, as the Member of a Society, first Secular, and then
Sacred.
Containing The Elements of Civill Politie in the Agreement which
it hath both with Naturall and Divine Lawes.
In which is demonstrated, Both what the Origine of Justice is,
and wherein the Essence of Christian Religion doth consist.
Together with The Nature, Limits and Qualifications both of
Regiment and Subjection.

By Tho: Hobbes.

London, Printed by J.C. for R. Royston, at the Angel in
Ivie-Lane. 1651.

To the Right Honourable, William, Earle of Devonshire,
My most honoured Lord

May it please your Lordship,

It was the speech of the Roman people (to whom the name of
King had been render'd odious, as well by the tyrannie of the
Tarquins, as by the Genius and Decretals of that City) 'Twas the
speech I say of the publick, however pronounced from a private
mouth, (if yet Cato the Censor were no more then such) That all
Kings are to be reckon'd amongst ravenous Beasts. But what a
Beast of prey was the Roman people, whilst with its conquering
Eagles it erected its proud Trophees so far and wide over the
world, bringing the Africans, the Asiaticks, the Macedonians, and
the Achaeans, with many other despoyled Nations, into a specious
bondage, with the pretence of preferring them to be Denizons of
Rome? So that if Cato's saying were a wise one, 'twas every whit
as wise that of pontius Telesinus; who flying about with open
mouth through all the Companies of his Army, (in that famous
encounter which he had with Sylla) cryed out, That Rome her
selfe, as well as Sylla, was to be raz'd; for that there would
alwayes be Wolves and Depraedatours of their Liberty, unlesse the
Forrest that lodg'd them were grubb'd up by the roots. To speak
impartially, both sayings are very true; That Man to Man is a
kind of God; and that Man to Man is an arrant. Wolfe. The first
is true, if we compare Citizens amongst themselves; and the
second, if we compare Cities. In the one, there's some analogie
of similitude with the Deity, to wit, Justice and Charity, the
twin-sisters of peace: But in the other, Good men must defend