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Thomas Hobbes@thomas-hobbes Β· 1651
In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain; no culture of the earth; no navigation; no commodious building; no arts; no letters; no society. And the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. This is not an insult to mankind. It is a warning about life without common power.
β Leviathan, Chapter XIII (1651)
17th Century