My (Burr Cook) ancestors, the Gates family, a large number of which are buried at Hopewell, were early settlers in the area, coming from Keene NH. Route 20, passing through the middle of the township, was at that time a log road and the first toll turnpike in the state long before the thruway was thought of.
State of Nature. State of nature refers to a condition in which there is no established political authority. It is essentially a state of complete freedom. Political theorists have used it to better understand human nature and, typically, to justify the rationality of a particular type of government.
Foxes, but are content, nay think it Safety, to be devoured by Lions.â ) Hobbes also held. that there could be neither justice nor injustice in the state of nature, because these require. the existence of government and laws. Locke claims that the state of nature is a state of perfect freedom and equality. In. saying this, he means to deny that the relation of political âsuperiorâ/political âinferior,â. where the latter has a duty to obey the former, is ânatural.â Where that relationship does.