Rousseau's "voice is the voice of Locke, but the hands are those of Hobbes." The influence of Hobbes upon Rousseau is, indeed, marked and singular. With Rousseau, as with Hobbes, the natural man in the state of nature was absolutely independent of others. The only difference between the two was that with Rousseau he was not at war with others, although eventually,when equality and happiness of the early state of nature was lost, Rousseau's mankind, too, went into a state of ceaseless warfare Again, that there was only one contract by which each individual surrendered all his rights, and the authority of the sovereign to whom rights had been surrendered were strongly reminiscent of Hobbes. For Rousseau, it was the General Will which was sovereign; for Hobbes it was the King. But once Rousseau established the sovereign power in the General Will, he endowed it with as much absolute unlimited, all-embracing, inalienable and indivisible power as Hobbes had given to his sovereign monarch. Similarly, General Will, according to Rousseau, could neither be wrong nor unjust. It could even force the individual will to its own point of view. Are these conclusions not similar to those of Hobbes. The only difference is that in the case of Hobbes these are attributes of a King, whereas with Rousseau they belong to the General Will and what this General Will precisely is, Rousseau remained throughout vague and indefinite about it. In any case, both Hobbes and Rousseau make man the plaything of the sovereign, no matter who the sovereign is, a King or the General Will.