thomas hobbes, Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, ed. J.C.A. Gaskin (New York: Oxford, 1999 [1640]), 76–7
Though words be the signs we have of one another’s opinions and intentions: because the equivocation of them is so frequent, according to the diversity of contexture, and of the company wherewith they go … it must be of extreme hard to find out the opinions and meanings of those … that are gone from us long ago, and have left us no other signification thereof but their books; which cannot possibly be understood without history enough to discover those aforementioned circumstances, and also without great prudence to observe them.
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