Thomas Hobbes — "For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, (in …"

For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the Sovereignty is an Artificial Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body.
Thomas Hobbes — Thomas Hobbes Early Modern · Leviathan, social contract

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Leviathan, Introduction

Date: 1651

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