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It is a world conceived on the analogy of a machine, where to explain an effect we go to its immediate cause, and to seek the Edition: current; Page: (19) result of a cause we go only to its immediate effect.11 In other words, the mechanistic element in Hobbes’s philosophy is derived from his rationalism; its source and authority lie, not in observation, but in reasoning. He does not say.