This is the "the privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only '" of which ThomasHobbes wrote in Leviathan.
这是“导致荒谬的特权，在那里，什么生物都不是主体，只有人类”托马斯·霍布斯在《利维坦》写道。
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As it does, I take comfort in the words of English philosopher ThomasHobbes who said; "Leisure is the mother of philosophy".
正如英国哲学家托马斯·霍布斯所说：“休闲是哲学的母亲”，我从这句话中获得了安慰。
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And the idea crops up again in the works of ThomasHobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, and Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), who lived in the 18th.