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" ... St. Augustine portrayed the human being as a creature born to oscillate between inwardness and outwardness. For humans, Augustine observed, neither the turn fully inward nor the turn fully outward was ever enough to satisfy the longings and the frustrations of the soul. This psychological postulate resurfaces again and again in Western political theory. In Hobbes, for instance, envy and pride are the grand political problems. Leviathan is the answer because only Leviathan -- a "mortal-god" that unites rule over body and spirit -- can gratify the envy of Man while taking on all his pride. To ameliorate both our envious retreats (inward, to resentfully brood) and our prideful advances (outward, to fight for power and display status), only one mechanism will do -- a government so all-powerful that we mere mortals are equally and categorically overawed. ... "