Thomas Hobbes:

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? For what is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings; and the joints, but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as was intended by the artificer?

— Thomas Hobbes Early Modern

Leviathan, social contract

Context

Leviathan, Introduction

Date / Period

1651

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm#link2H_4_0003

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Explanation

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