Urban

January 26, 2022 Arthur Simpkins

New Westminster, B.C., January 26, 2022

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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and conse- quently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodi- ties that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instru- ments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no let- ters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan"