For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?
Leviathan, social contract
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"Ignorance of the causes, and original constitution of right, equity, law, and justice, disposeth a man to make custom and example the rule of his actions."
Controversial"For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose prot…"
Humorous"For to believe that any one should be so fool-hardy, as to put himself into a state of war, without necessity, is to believe that he is a fool."
Strange & Unusual"The greatest good is the preservation of life, and the greatest evil is death."
Strange & Unusual"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed in the end of the fifteenth chapter, are immutable and eternal; but the force and efficacy of these laws depend upon the security which men have of being able …"
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