So when we extend our assistance to those countries that are still developing, we have a unique perspective that says we know what you are going through, we have been there before too."

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

He seems, in this way, to anticipate what we might think of as the modern welfare state that public assistance be provided, and the poor, not simply depend on the private goodwill of the others.

如此看来,霍布斯已经预见到了,我们现代社会国家福利制度的出现，穷人不只依靠个人的善意施舍度日,更多的是求助于国家提供的福利保障。

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