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Quotation from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
“And this is a Disease which not unfitly may be compared to the Epilepsie, or Falling-sicknesse (which the Jewes took to be one kind of possession by Spirits) in the Body Naturall”
Leviathan, Part II, Ch. XXIX (1651 text (original spelling))
Divided authority between civil and spiritual powers is compared to an epileptic seizure that wrests the body from the control of the brain.
Citation: "And this is a Disease which not unfitly may be compared to the Epilepsie, or Falling-sicknesse (which the Jewes took to be one kind of possession by Spirits) in the Body Naturall" — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part II, Ch. XXIX (1651 text (original spelling)). (id leviathan-q11)
Portrait: Thomas Hobbes (copy after an original of c.1669–1670), John Michael Wright, Public domain.
