 | Thomas Hobbes - 2008 - 516 pages
...that from the innumerable variety of fancy, men have created in the world innumerable sorts of gods. And this fear of things invisible, is the natural seed of that, which every one in bunself calleth religion; and in them that worship, or fear that power otherwise than they do, superstition.... | |
 | Marcela Cristi - 2001 - 300 pages
...to do them much good or harm, are inclined to suppose... several kinds of Power Invisible.... And 95 this fear of things invisible, is the natural seed of that, which everyone in himself calls religion" (cited in Larram, 1979: 23). Despite his conviction that religion... | |
 | Marc J. Madou - 2002 - 826 pages
...Manufacturing of Microbiomedical Devices," Chem. Rev., vol. 100, pp. 2679-91, 2000. 4 Wet Bulk Micromachining Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 2005 - 404 pages
...that from the innumerable variety of fancy, men have created in the world innumerable sorts of gods. And this fear of things invisible is the natural seed...one in himself calleth religion, and in them that worship or fear that power otherwise than they do, superstition. 27. And this seed of religion, having... | |
 | Matthew W. Maguire - 2006 - 310 pages
...see also 1.2, pp. 89-93. Thus in the passage following the one quoted here 230 on p. 168, Hobbcs says "and this fear of things invisible, is the natural Seed of that, which every one in himself callcth Religion." Furthermore, for Hobbcs, the imagination is by definition finite, not only in the... | |
 | Bryan Garsten - 2009 - 302 pages
...innumerable variety of Fancy, men have created in the world innumerable sorts of Gods. And this Feare of things invisible, is the natural! Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion." Throughout the second half of Leviathan, when arguing against the existence of spirits, angels, demons,... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 pages
...created in the world innumerable sorts of Gods. And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition. And this seed of Religion, having... | |
 | Eric Clifford Graf - 2007 - 230 pages
...metaphysical places, that is, the work of Hobbes: "this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition"; "of the Essence of a Man, which... | |
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And this fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion, and in them that worship or fear that power otherwise than they do, superstition. 
