For by art", he says in the introduction, "For by art is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth or a state, " which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural for whose protection and defense it was intended."

他在引言中说，因为号称国民的整体或国家这个庞然大物,“利维坦“是用艺术造成的，它只是一个“人造的人，虽然它远比自然人身高力大,而是以保护自然人为目的“

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