“But yet they that have no Science, are in better, and nobler…”

“But yet they that have no Science, are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.”

— Thomas Hobbes

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The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 21

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