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Date: 1729
"[W]hat the Women excel us in then, is the Goodness of the Instrument, either in the Harmony, or Pliableness of the Organs, which must be very material in the Art of Thinking, and is the only thing that deserves the Name of Natural Parts"
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1748, 1749
"As the string of a violin or harpsichord trembles and vibrates, so the fibres or strings of the brain struck by the undulating rays of sound, are excited to return or repeat the words that touched them."
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
