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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Animals"
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"Machine"
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Author name:
"Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)"
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Date: 1748, 1749
"Man is a machine so compound, that it is impossible to form at first a clear idea thereof, and consequently to define it. This is the reason, that all the enquiries the philosophers have made a priori, that is, by endeavouring to raise themselves on the wings of the understanding have proved ine...
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