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The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
by Thomas Hobbes
1640
To the Right Honourable
William, Earl of Newcastle,
Governor to the Prince his Highness,
one of His Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council
The Epistle Dedicatory
My Most Honoured Lord,
From the two principal parts of our nature, Reason and
Passion, have proceeded two kinds of learning, mathematical and
dogmatical. The former is free from controversies and dispute,
because it consisteth in comparing figures and motion only; in
which things truth and the interest of men, oppose not each
other. But in the later there is nothing not disputable, because
it compareth men, and meddleth with their right and profit; in
which as oft as reason is against a man, so oft will a man be
against reason. And from hence it comes, that they who have
written of justice and policy in general do all invade each
other, and themselves, with contradiction. To reduce this
doctrine to the rules and infallibility of reason, there is no
way, but first, to put such principles down for a foundation, as
passion not mistrusting may not seek to displace: And afterward
to build thereon the truth of cases in the law of nature (which
hitherto have been built in the air) by degrees, till the whole
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