Origin of Government
(1651)
Author: Thomas Hobbes
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Origin of Government was part of the Great Books Foundation's Reading and Discussion Program, and is made up of excerpts from Hobbes' Leviathan. The text was definitely drawn from chapters 13, 14, 17, and 18; possibly from other chapters as well.
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