Nature Is Never Spent A perennial theme resurfaces in academy contenders. It may seem strange to someone...that nature should thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade, and destroy one another...Let him...consider with himself, when he takes a journey, he arms himself...; when he goes to sleep, he locks his doors...Does he not there as much accuse mankind by his actions, as I do by my words? But neither of us accuse man's nature in it. The desires, and other passions of men, are in themselves no sin. (Leviathan) This famous passage from 17th-century English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes encapsulates...