...according to Tacitus " the moft vehement and flaming" Tacit. lib. 15-. Hobbes fays, " In the firft place I put for a " general inclination of ALL MANKIND, a " perpetual and rcftlefs defire of po-wer after " -bower that ccafeth only in death." Leviathan chap. xi. An anonymous...

...from one object to another ; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter." " So that, in the first place, I put for a general inclination...of power after power that ceaseth only in death." (12) Of religion. ' ' Seeing there are no signs, nor fruit of religion, but in man only, there is no...

...action in relation with one another. In all men alike he recognises one overmastering purpose — " a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death." This assumes, as between man and man, a variety of forms that may best be noted at the farther stage...

...in relation to this matter that he is led into what is usually considered as his greatest paradox. ' In the first place I put for a general inclination...of power after power that ceaseth only in death.' In order to understand this, it is necessary to understand what Hobbes meant by power, for he uses...

...way, from the diversity of passions or difference in knowledge. In the first place, therefore, he will "put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that endeth only in death." It is not that a man can always hope for a greater delight, but because he cannot...

...the first principle of human nature. Human actions have for their basis — and their only basis — "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death." l That is, as follows 1 Leviathan, chap. xi. HOBBES ON EQUALITY from the definition of " power " mentioned...

...natural temperament and was racy of the soil. In saying that the over-mastering purpose in man ' is a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death,' and in defining happiness as ' a continual progress of the desire from one object to another,' he was an...

...acquire the means of gratifying all future desires, 1 Human Nature, chap vii 5. and thus there arises " a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death." l (This desire for power is not original or primitive ; it i is derived from the fundamental desires...

...by Hobbes into a complete philosophy of the State. " In the first place," said Hobbes, "I put forth, for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual...of power after power, that ceaseth only in death." The natural condition of mankind, therefore, is that every man's hand should be against every other...

...that is, of the opportunity of satisfying his ever new desires in the future, leads to a further ' general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and...of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.' The chief cause of this restlessness is the insecurity of our happiness without increase of our powers...