Excerpt from Horae Sabbaticae: Reprint of Articles Contributed to the Saturday Review

Now' dominion and liberty are mutually exclusive, and, as rights are no more than ascertained and definite branches of liberty, it follows that they are constituted by law, which is the will of the ruler 3 that as against the ruler no one can have any rights, inasmuch as the existence of rights is dependent on the ruler's will 3 and that the ruler lies under no duties towards his subjects, for duties are the correlatives of rights 3 nor towards other rulers, for, as regards them, he is absolute and independent.

It would be a great injustice to Hobbes to suppose that he denied the existence or obligation of morality. On the contrary, he strongly urges it on rulers as well as on their subjects. Morality is, according to his view, the law of God. He draws out at length a scheme of morality, or the laws of nature, of which he enumerates twenty3 but these, he observes, are not properly laws, because they are not commands, except in so far as and inasmuch as 'they are de livered by God in holy Scriptures 'for the sacred Scripture is the speech of God commanding over all things by greatest right.'

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