What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body? (Thomas Hobbes)

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

Thomas Hobbes

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