The "continual fear and danger of violent death " is the "worst of all " features of the state of nature . But freedom from that fear and danger is the keystone in a list of goods which that fear and danger prevent from arising , including industry , agriculture "commodious building " arts , letters , and society (Hobbes , Leviathan , XXIII : 9 . After defining the "office of the sovereign " as "the procuration of the safety of the people " Hobbes simultaneously adds "But by safety here is not...











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