>>20285486Thank you, anon.
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1588-1679: Thomas Hobbes
>"Forme (looks) is Power; because being a promise of Good, it recommendeth men to the favour of women and strangers."—Leviathan
>"But the question lyeth now in the state of meer Nature; where there are supposed no lawes of Matrimony; no lawes for the education of children; but the Law of Nature, and the naturall inclination of the Sexes, one to another, and to their children. If there be no contract, the dominion is in the mother. For in the condition of Meer Nature, where there are no matrimoniall lawes, it cannot be known who is the father, unlesse it be declared by the mother: and therefore the right of dominion over the child dependeth on her will, and is consequently hers.—Ibid
>"By this it appears, that a great Family if it be not part of some Commonwealth, is of it self, as to the Rights of Soveraignty, a little Monarchy; whether that Family consist of a man and his children; or of a man and his servants; or of a man, and his children, and servants together: wherein the Father of Master is the Soveraign.—Ibid
