Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Note on the Texts
- Chronology
- PART ONE THE MAJOR TEXTS
- PART TWO CONTEXTS: EUROPE, AMERICA, AND AFRICA
- DISCUSSIONS OF COLONIALISM
- Iewes in America
- Americans no Iewes
- Leviathan
- A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr. Hobbes's Book, entitled ‘Leviathan’
- Two Treatises of Government
- The Germantown Protest
- Bibliography
- Index
Leviathan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Note on the Texts
- Chronology
- PART ONE THE MAJOR TEXTS
- PART TWO CONTEXTS: EUROPE, AMERICA, AND AFRICA
- DISCUSSIONS OF COLONIALISM
- Iewes in America
- Americans no Iewes
- Leviathan
- A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr. Hobbes's Book, entitled ‘Leviathan’
- Two Treatises of Government
- The Germantown Protest
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Laws of the Commonwealth. For as it is Uncharitableness in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of the Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.
But for such as have strong bodies, the case is otherwise: they are to be forced to work; and to avoyd the excuse of not finding empolyment, there ought to be such Laws, as may encourage all manner of Arts; as Navigation, Agriculture, Fishing, and all manner of Manifacture that requires labour. The multitude of poor, and yet strong people still encreasing, they are to be transplanted into Countries not sufficiently inhabited: where nevertheless, they are not to exterminate those they find there; but constrain them to inhabit closer together, and not to range a great deal of ground, to snatch what they find; but to court each little Plot with art and labour, to give them their sustenance in due season. And when all the world is overcharged with Inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is War; which provideth for every man, by Victory, or Death.
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