Humans have achieved a kind of adulthood in which they now rely on their powers of human reasoning. Many of the figures identified as Enlightenment thinkers in France were not really democrats. They were quite willing to work with enlightened sovereigns, such as Catherine the Great, to effect change. The paradigm postulates a hierachy from the lowliest of creatures and things up to the God head. In this hierarchy there are relations of superior to inferior, master to servant, elite to masses.
All creatures exist in a relation of superioriy to subordination to all creatures above and below.
Paternalistic relations of father to mother, mother to children reinforce and reflect the power of the King at the political level. The stress in common parlance is on a strong government, preferably a monarch. While there is more than a grain of truth in this image of Hobbes' theory it is also too schematic. Hobbes recognized that fear was inadequate as a social glue and wrote extensively about the need to win, even if through deceit, the legitimacy of the populace. He was born in Malmesbury, England in 1588.