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going to have any affect. "I'm in the point of believing
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it will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato,"
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for he also is of the opinion that it is impossible
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for the disorders of state and change of government by civil war
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ever to be taken away until sovereigns be philosophers.
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But after admitting his despair about the possibility
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of realizing his ideas and practice, Hobbes continues as follows,
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"I recover some hope," he says, "that one time or other,
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this writing of mine may still fall into the hands of a sovereign
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who will consider himself without the help
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of any interested or envious interpreter.
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And by the exercise of entire sovereignty