For Locke, the state of nature is separate from the state of war. As we recall, the great Hobbes confounded these two realms. Locke is at pains to separate them. Locke preaches that the state of nature, contra Hobbes, is a state of good will, peace, mutual assistance and preservation. The state of war, on the other hand, is a state of enmity, destruction, malice and violence. Locke writes, "it is only the want of a common judge with authority puts all men in a state of nature; force without right upon a man's person makes a state of war both where there is, and is not, a common judge