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Quotation from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
“And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition”
Leviathan, Part I, Ch. XI (1651 text (original spelling))
Hobbes's naturalistic account of the origin of religion in anxious ignorance of causes.
Citation: "And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition" — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. XI (1651 text (original spelling)). (id leviathan-q8)
Portrait: Thomas Hobbes (copy after an original of c.1669–1670), John Michael Wright, Public domain.
