“[M]an… whatever the origin of his soul, if it is pure, noble, and lofty, it is a beautiful soul which dignifies the man endowed with it.”

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie, book Man a Machine

p, 125
Man a Machine (1747)

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French physician and philosopher 1709–1751

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