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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
"And where is the wonder that the body when in health should be subservient, for how can it resist that torrent of blood, and all those spirits which are ready to force obedience, the will having for its ministers an invisible army of fluids, always ready to receive its orders, and as quick as li...
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
