"We think not, nay, we are not honest men, but as we are chearful, or brave; all depends on the manner of winding up the machine."
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
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Date
1748, 1749
Metaphor
"We think not, nay, we are not honest men, but as we are chearful, or brave; all depends on the manner of winding up the machine."
Metaphor in Context
We think not, nay, we are not honest men, but as we are chearful, or brave; all depends on the manner of winding up the machine. A person would be tempted to think, at certain times, that the soul is lodged in the stomach, and that Van Helmont in placing it in the pylorus, is not deceived but by taking a part for the whole.
(p. 13)
(p. 13)
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Reading
Citation
4 entries in the ESTC. Published anonymously, translated into English in 1749 with printings in 1750 and 1752.
Text from Man a Machine. Translated from the French of the Marquiss D'Argens. (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1749). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Man a Machine and Man a Plant, trans. Richard A. Watson and Maya Rybalka (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Translation based on version from La Mettrie's Oeuvres philosophiques (Berlin: 1751).
Text from Man a Machine. Translated from the French of the Marquiss D'Argens. (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1749). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Man a Machine and Man a Plant, trans. Richard A. Watson and Maya Rybalka (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Translation based on version from La Mettrie's Oeuvres philosophiques (Berlin: 1751).
Date of Entry
07/16/2013
