It is Hobbes' proposition that even though individuals may differ in the strengths of their various natural powers, all people are naturally equal, because even the weakest is capable of killing the strongest by some means: "Nature hath made men so equal, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there bee found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind then another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit, to which another may not pretend, a...

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