"'Tis thus the brain, that matrix, if I may use the expression, of the soul, is perverted after its manner, together with that of the body."
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
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Date
1748, 1749
Metaphor
"'Tis thus the brain, that matrix, if I may use the expression, of the soul, is perverted after its manner, together with that of the body."
Metaphor in Context
Pregnancy that mimic of the green-sickness, is not contented oftentimes with the depraved longings of the latter disorder; it has sometimes driven a frantic soul into the greatest extravagances; the effects of a sudden madness, which stifles the very sentiments of nature. 'Tis thus the brain, that matrix, if I may use the expression, of the soul, is perverted after its manner, together with that of the body.
(p. 13)
(p. 13)
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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
