Dr. Jeffrey Bond presents a Catholic critique of Hobbesian Materialism. Protestantism promotes the vision of a totally depraved world in which the sinful jungle animals we call men claw endlessly at one another. Dr. Bond speaks here of how the seventeenth century English political philosopher Hobbes accepts this grossly materialist view of men and seeks to impose order upon the chaos that it expects through the willful and absolutist power of a basically totalitarian State. He explains why Hobbes is unacceptable to the Catholic vision. Taken from Regalism, Revolution, the Reign of Terror and the Assault on Catholicism (1648-1799) – 1998 VonHildebrand Institute