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"