Hobbes, Lev XII From Textop Wiki CHAPTER XII: OF RELIGION 1.
SEEING there are no signs nor fruit of religion but in man only,
there is no cause to doubt but that the seed of religion is also
only in man; and consisteth in some peculiar quality, or at
least in some eminent degree thereof, not to be found in other
living creatures. 2. And first, it is peculiar to the nature of
man to be inquisitive into the causes of the events they see,
some more, some less, but all men so much as to be curious in
the search of the causes of their own good and evil fortune. 3.
Secondly, upon the sight of anything that hath a beginning, to
think also it had a cause which determined the same to begin
then when it did, rather than sooner or later. - We naturally
seek causes for anything that has a beginning. - Secondly, [it
is a “seed of religion” that] upon the sight of anything that
hath a beginning, to think also it had a cause which determined
the same to begin then when it did, rather than sooner or later.
- Hobbes, Lev XII