Thomas Hobbes — "For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some princ…"

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?
Thomas Hobbes — Thomas Hobbes Early Modern · Leviathan, social contract

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Leviathan, Introduction

Date: 1651

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