| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 28400 |
| QUOTATION: | He says a man may perhaps answer, that the necessity of things held by him, is not a stoical necessity, but a Christian necessity, &c. But this distinction I have not used, nor indeed have ever heard before, nor could I think any man could make stoical and Christian two kinds of necessity, though they may be two kinds of doctrine |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688), British philosopher. “An Answer to Dr. Bramhall”, English Works, vol. 4, p. 260, ed. Molesworth (1839-1845). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Hobbes Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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