Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one. (Thomas Hobbes)

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

Thomas Hobbes

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