...against every man," with no security other than what individual strength and invention can furnish. "There is no place for industry, because the fruit...no culture of the earth ; no navigation nor use of commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing,...

...thereof is un : ertain, and oonseqnently no culture of thé earth ; no navigation, nor use of thé commodities that may be imported by sea ; no commodious building ; no instruments of moving and removing sueh thinga as require much force ; no knowledge of thé face of thé earth ; no aoconnt of time ;...

...one of the war of every man against every other man." Such a condition is one of universal misery. "In such condition there is no place for industry;...no culture of the earth ; no navigation, nor use of commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious buildings; no instru"Ibid., pp. 180-181. 48...

...awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of all against all. . . . In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, ... no arts, no letters, no society, and, what is worst of all, continued fear and danger of violent...

...Whatsoever is consequent," he says, " to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without...their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such a condition there is no place for industry because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently...

...because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and, consequently, no culture of the earth, no navigation, no use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of movmg and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account...

...192 Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of War, where ever/ 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 theirj own invention shaTT fufnish"them withal. In such^ condition there is no place for Industry,...

..."Whatsoever, therefore, is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without...navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be upon us during the last hundred years ; so that poets and those of poetic feeling, like Renan or Browning,...

...absolute freedom. But there is a downside too. In the state of nature, "men live without security other than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them with."-' In this state of nature, might makes right and there is no physical security. Coercion is...

...supremacy, the result, to quote Thucydides, is 'no commerce, and no safe comnmnication', and as Hobbes wrote 'there [is] no place for industry; because the fruit thereof [is] uncertain'. Nef (1950) put it blatantly when he wrote 'war is inimical to progress'. Rimmer ( 1 995) contrasts...