LA NATURALEZA (el arte con que Dios ha hecho y gobierna el mundo) está imitada de tal modo, como en otras muchas cosas, por el arte del hombre, que éste puede crear un animal artificial. Y siendo la vida un movimiento members whose initiation is in some principal part thereof
why do not we could say that all automata (devices that move themselves by springs and wheels as does a watch) have an artificial life? What is really the heart but a spring, and what are nerves, but different fibers, and the joints, but many wheels, giving motion to the whole body as the Author proposed it?
Art goes yet further, imitating the sound work, which is the most sublime of Nature: man. Indeed, thanks to art is created that great Leviathan is called Republic or State (Latin civitas) which is nothing but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural
for whose protection and defense was established, and in which:
• sovereignty is an artificial soul that gives life and movement to the whole body;
• Judges and other officials of the judiciary and enforcement, artificial linkages;
• reward and punishment (by which every link and every member connected to the seat of sovereignty is induced to perform his duty) are the nerves that make the same in the natural body;
• wealth and abundance for all individual members are their power;
• the salus populi (the salvation of people) are their business;
• directors, who report few things needs to know, are the memory;
• equity and laws, an artificial reason and will;
• harmony is health;
• sedition disease;
• civil war, death.
Finally, the conventions by which parts of the body politic are created, combined and joined together, aseméjanse to that fiat, or let us make man, pronounced by God in creation.
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