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Work title:
"L'Homme machine [Man a Machine]"
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Literary Period:
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1748, 1749
"As the string of a violin or harpsichord trembles and vibrates, so the fibres or strings of the brain struck by the undulating rays of sound, are excited to return or repeat the words that touched them."
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)