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Leviathan - Hobbes, Thomas ยท 73 words
This perpetuall feare, alwayes accompanying mankind in the ignorance of causes, as it were in the Dark, must needs have for object something. And therefore when there is nothing to be seen, there is nothing to accuse, either of their good, or evill fortune, but some Power, or Agent Invisible. In which sense perhaps it was, that some of the old Poets said, that the Gods were at first created by humane Feare.
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