... pieces left that were big enough to tear apart. The other major theorist of absolutism was Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). He wrote immediately after the civil wars in England in the 1640s, conflicts that partially stemmed from religious fanaticism. Hobbes took the title of his most famous work Leviathan from biblical references to a piercing and crooked sea monster of that name who devoured anything ... in his path and could not be controlled by men. Leviathin represented a state so powerful that the monarch could not be restrained ... enlightened absolutists. Although the growth of armies...

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