Essay on Thomsas Hobbes, by Daniel McCarthy in Modern Age.
"Civilization and all its comforts are unobtainable, in Hobbes’s account, as long as the fear of losing everything, at any moment, to violent seizure forestalls the effort to create anything valuable and lasting. The absence of civilization’s benefits, as much or more than the presence of violence itself, is the cause of man’s misery in this telling. Fear is even worse than fighting—as the Athenians and Spartans alike recognized in another context."
See Hobbes, Leviathan, at Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 23, Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 21.
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