...the constitution of every land. Of the Great Leviathan of Hobbes, " called the Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural man, for whose protection and defence it was intended," all seen at first is the royal head. Soon a...

...thoughtless gayety and license. 'Among the poets who,' says Campbell, ' have walked in WRITINGS. or state, which is but an artificial man, though of greater...and strength than the natural, for whose protection it was intended.' Hobbes — the first to deal with the science of government from the side of reason...

...— " For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, in Latin CITITAS, which is but an artificial man ; though of greater...intended, and in which the sovereignty is an artificial sou!, as giving life and motion to the whole body ; the magistrates and other officers of judicature...

...an artificial man (though of greater stature and length than the natural man, for whose protection it was intended), and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul giving life and motion to the whole body."2 Outside this State there can be no laws and no justice...

...an artificial man (though of greater stature and length than the natural man, for whose protection it was intended), and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul giving life and motion to the whole body."2 Outside this State there can be no laws and no justice...

...protect and defend each other. Thus was created " that great Leviathan called the Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater...for whose protection and defence it was intended." From this idea of the formation of a State comes his view of monarchy. The community resigned all rights...

...as an afterthought. " By art," he says, " is created that great leviathan called a commonwealth, or State, in Latin civitas, which is but an artificial...for whose protection and defence it was intended." Again, " the pacts and covenants by which the parts of this body politic were at first made, set together...

...Covenant between man and man originally created " that great Leviathan called the Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater...for whose protection and defence it was intended." The fiction of such an " original contract" has long been dismissed from political speculation, but...

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...Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil. In it Hobbes represents the commonwealth to be an artifi-- cial man ; " though of greater stature and strength than...for whose protection and defence it was intended." In it, he says, " the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as 1 See also De Cive, Praefatio ad Lectores....