Hobbes
From Hobbes’s account of the civil wars, this excerpt expresses his disdain for the Parliament that would take down its king.
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B.
You make the members of that Parliament very simple men; and yet the people chose them for the wisest of the land.
A.
If craft be wisdom, they were wise enough. But wise, as I define it, is he that knows how to bring his business to pass, without the assistance of knavery and ignoble shifts, by the sole strength of his good contrivance. A fool may win from a better gamester by the advantage of false dice, and packing of cards.
B.
According to your definition, there be few wise men now-a-days. Such wisdom is a kind of gallantry, that few are brought up to, and most think folly. Fine cloaths, great feathers, civility towards men that will not swallow injuries, and injury towards them that will, is the present gallantry.
-- Thomas Hobbes, “Behemoth”
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B.
You make the members of that Parliament very simple men; and yet the people chose them for the wisest of the land.
A.
If craft be wisdom, they were wise enough. But wise, as I define it, is he that knows how to bring his business to pass, without the assistance of knavery and ignoble shifts, by the sole strength of his good contrivance. A fool may win from a better gamester by the advantage of false dice, and packing of cards.
B.
According to your definition, there be few wise men now-a-days. Such wisdom is a kind of gallantry, that few are brought up to, and most think folly. Fine cloaths, great feathers, civility towards men that will not swallow injuries, and injury towards them that will, is the present gallantry.
-- Thomas Hobbes, “Behemoth”
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