Events from 1651

Hobbes publishes Leviathan - social contract theory, law as sovereign command, positivist foundation

Thomas Hobbes's 'Leviathan' - 'Words are wise men's counters... but they are the money of fools' - No essences, only names we impose - 'The universe is corporeal; all that is real is material' - Man in nature: 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'

St. Peter Claver dies in Colombia - 'slave of slaves' - Baptized 300,000 African slaves: 'We must speak to them with our hands by giving before we speak with our lips'