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...Men seem to have returned to that state when, as Hobbes says, every man is enemy to every man, when men live without other security than what their own...and their own invention shall furnish them withal. The case of Lieutenant Cole, an officer of the royal navy, who had purchased the freehold of some land...

...love thy neighbor as thyself. Mark xii. 31. THE philosopher of Malmsbury tells us, that " whatsoever is consequent to a time of war, where every man is...and their own invention shall furnish them withal." We cannot admit this startling proposition to be true. To he sure, we cannot go back beyond history,...

...disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is peace. Whatsoever, therefore, is consequent to a time of...enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the tune wherein men five without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall...

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...be applied, indeed, with eminent fitness to the Scottish anarchy of which Edward was the author: " In such condition there is no place for industry,...uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth : l Non emin propter gloriam diucias aut honores pugnamus, sed propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo...

...disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary ; all other time is peace. Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war,...is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof IB uncertain; and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation, nor us* of the commodities that...

...forcibly described by Hobbes (Leviathan, Part I. ch. xiii.), where every man is enemy to every man :— " In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof ie nncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation, no use of the commodities that...

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...thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is " peace." с / Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man i is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live ji without other security...