Reflective Write

Respond to Thomas Hobbes' statement in his Leviathan (1651) that characterized  the life of "primitive people," what we call Indigenous peoples, as with

 "no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short-lived."

 

In his assertions, how has Hobbes continued to express the "walls and tower of Jericho"?

 

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