Introduction
Opens with the famous metaphor: 'For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE...which is but an Artificiall Man.'
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From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes presents the commonwealth as an artificial man or automaton, with sovereignty as its soul, magistrates as joints, and the whole as an imitation of God's creation.
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