“The mind, like the body, has its contagious diseases and its scurvy. …[W]e catch everything from those with whom we come in contact; their gestures, their accent, etc.”

—  Julien Offray de La Mettrie, book Man a Machine

Man a Machine (1747)

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French physician and philosopher 1709–1751

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