sentences:  "De Cive" is the first of a trilogy of works written by Hobbes dealing with human knowledge, the other two works in the trilogy being "De Corpore" ("On the body"), published in 1655 and "De Homine" ("On man"), published in 1658.Because of the political turmoil of the time, namely the unrest leading up to the Civil War of 1642, Hobbes hastily "ripened and plucked" the work which would systematically come last