“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and w…”

“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.”

— Thomas Hobbes

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The First Part, Chapter 2, p. 8

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