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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

Thomas Hobbes
Spring, Men, Law
Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.114, Hackett Publishing

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... 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
Spring, Moving, Watches
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.97

Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. 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
Art, Nature, Spring
Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.9, Broadview Press

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