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Leviathan
1651 · 688 pages
Strip away the state, Hobbes argues, and life becomes a war of everyone against everyone, nasty, brutish, and short. The remedy is to hand all our power to one sovereign.
★ 8.2
Of Plymouth Plantation
1651 · 256 pages
Plymouth's governor kept the record of his colony year by year, calling the coast a hideous and desolate wilderness. The early chapters carry the founding myth, the closing ones turn to lament.
★ 5.8
Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
The Character of a Happy Life · 1651