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Nationality of Author:
"French"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Religion of Author:
"Materialist or Mortalist"
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Work title:
"L'Homme machine [Man a Machine]"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1748, 1749
"If reason is the slave of depraved, or distracted sense, how then can it be expected, that at that time it should be governor?"
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
Date: 1748, 1749
"It is ridiculous to exclaim against the dominion of the will. For one order which it gives, a hundred times does it come under the yoke."
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)