"The mind has, as well as the body, its epidemical and scorbutic disorders."
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
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Date
1748, 1749
Metaphor
"The mind has, as well as the body, its epidemical and scorbutic disorders."
Metaphor in Context
One nation, we may observe, is generally heavy and stupid; and another is sprightly, gay, and sagacious. What is this owing to unless it be in part to the food they live on, to the seed of their parents, or to that chaos of different elements that swim in the immense expanse of air? The mind has, as well as the body, its epidemical and scorbutic disorders.
(p. 16)
(p. 16)
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Citation
4 entries in the ESTC. Published anonymously, translated into English in 1749 with printings in 1750 and 1752.
Text from Man a Machine. Translated from the French of the Marquiss D'Argens. (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1749). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Man a Machine and Man a Plant, trans. Richard A. Watson and Maya Rybalka (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Translation based on version from La Mettrie's Oeuvres philosophiques (Berlin: 1751).
Text from Man a Machine. Translated from the French of the Marquiss D'Argens. (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1749). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Man a Machine and Man a Plant, trans. Richard A. Watson and Maya Rybalka (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Translation based on version from La Mettrie's Oeuvres philosophiques (Berlin: 1751).
Date of Entry
07/16/2013
