Thomas Hobbs and John Locke constructed theories in a time that was very dark and dangerous in England. Hobbes was well educated but soon found himself interested in science and metaphysics, and John Locke was born in a Royal society and was a physician. Both Hobbes and Locke published writings that helped develop governments, making them more effective and efficient. They had to make many decisions, and when the revolution in England began, which removed the government, they began to make religious statements and even social and political statements. When the Enlightenment happened, people began to think more scientific instead of religious or theologically based thinking. The Enlightenment developed the social contract theory in which
