Thus defined, the first liberty of the subject is the freedom to do as one pleases with one’s own body. The subject is also equally free to use his or her reasoning power to decide right and wrong. Finally, the subject can assume liberties about which the official law of the land is silent. Hobbes was so perceptive that he want so far to argue that “And in some places of the world, men have the liberty of many wives: in other places, such liberty is not at all allowed.”