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The Elements of Law Natural and Politic

  
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THE EDITOR'S PREFACE.
  
THE ORDER.
  
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PART I.
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CHAPTER 1. The General Division of Man's Natural Faculties
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CHAPTER 2. The Cause of Sense
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CHAPTER 3. Of Imagination and the Kinds Thereof
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CHAPTER 4. Of the Several Kinds of Discursion of the Mind
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CHAPTER 5. Of Names, Reasoning, and Discourse of the Tongue
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CHAPTER 6. Of a Knowledge, Opinion and Relief
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CHAPTER 7. Of Delight and Pain; Good and Evil
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CHAPTER 8. Of the Pleasures of the Senses; Of Honour
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CHAPTER 9. Of the Passions of the Mind
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CHAPTER 10. Of the Difference Between Men In These Discerning Faculty and the Cause
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CHAPTER 11. What Imaginations and Passions Men Have, at the Names of Things Supernatural
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CHAPTER 12. How by Deliberation From Passions Proceed Men's Actions
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CHAPTER 13. How by Language Men Work Upon Each Other's Minds
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CHAPTER 14. Of the Estate and Right of Nature
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CHAPTER 15. Of the Divesting Natural Right by Gift and Covenant
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CHAPTER 16. Some of the Laws of Nature
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CHAPTER 17. Other Laws of Nature
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CHAPTER 18. A Confirmation of the Same Out of The Word of God
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CHAPTER 19. Of the Necessity and Definition of a Body Politic
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PART II.
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CHAPTER 1. Of the Requisites to the Constitution of a Commonwealth
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CHAPTER 2. Of the Three Sorts of Commonwealth
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CHAPTER 3. Of the Power of Masters
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CHAPTER 4. Of the Power of Fathers, and of Patrimonial Kingdom
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CHAPTER 5. The Incommodities of Several Sorts of Government Compared
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CHAPTER 6. That Subjects are not Bound to Follow Their Private Judgments in Controversies of Religion
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CHAPTER 7. That Subjects are not bound to follow the Judgment of any Authority in Controversies of Religion which is not Dependent on the Sovereign Power
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CHAPTER 8. Of the Causes of Rebellion
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CHAPTER 9. Of the Duty of Them That Have Sovereign Power
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CHAPTER 10. Of the Nature and Kinds of Laws

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THE

ELEMENTS OF LAW

NATURAL AND POLITIC.


BY

THOMAS HOBBES
OF MALMESBURY.




EDITED WITH A PREFACE AND CRITICAL NOTES
BY
FERDINAND TÖNNIES, PH.D.


TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED
SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM UNPRINTED
MSS. OF THOMAS HOBBES.




LONDON

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO.

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