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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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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:
"Body"
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"Machine"
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Date: 1748, 1749
"In proportion as the motion of the blood grows calm, a soft soothing sense of peace and tranquility spreads itself over the whole machine; the soul finds itself sweetly weighed down with slumber, and sinks with the fibres of the brain: it becomes thus paralytic as it were, by degrees, together w...
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)