Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s1.87

c5.s1.87

¹ Compare the exposition of Thomas Hobbes, where dealing with the life in the ‘state of nature’ and the growing feeling of instituting a common sovereign, he says—Leviathan, 131 :—‘The only way to erect such a Common Power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of Foreigners, and the injuries of one another and thereby to secure them in such sort, as that by their own industries and by the fruites of the Earth, they may nourish themselves and live contentedly ; is to confer all their power and strength upon one Man, etc. etc.