Leviathan
London: J. M. Dent (Everyman's Library), 1914 · introduction by A. D. Lindsay
Hobbes's argument that without a common power people live in a war of all against all, and that they escape it by covenanting to give up their right to govern themselves to a sovereign: the Leviathan, or Commonwealth.
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) published Leviathan in 1651. Its four parts cover human nature (“Of Man”), the making of the state by covenant (“Of Commonwealth”), a Christian commonwealth, and what he calls the “Kingdom of Darkness”.
This copy is the 1914 Everyman’s Library edition. It was scanned by the Digital Library of India from a copy in the State Central Library, Kolkata, and is held by the Internet Archive as a public-domain work. The file is about 35 MB.