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Man a Machine

by Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751)

10 chapters, about 54,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 2,000 words
2. L'HOMME MACHINE. 19,000 words
3. MAN A MACHINE. 18,800 words
4. CHAPTER II. CONCERNING MATTER. 300 words
5. CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE EXTENSION OF MATTER. 400 words
6. CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE MOVING FORCE OF MATTER. 900 words
7. CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING THE SENSITIVE FACULTY OF MATTER. 500 words
8. BY GERTRUDE CARMAN BUSSEY. 2,300 words
9. NOTE ON FREDERICK THE GREAT'S EULOGY. 200 words
10. NOTES ON MAN A MACHINE. 9,600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Corpus callosum
• Extension (metaphysics)
• Natural law

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