Man a Machine: Including Frederick the Great's "Eulogy" On La Mettrie and Extracts From La Mettrie's "the Natural History of the Soul" (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

9780266412267: Man a Machine: Including Frederick the Great's "Eulogy" On La Mettrie and Extracts From La Mettrie's "the Natural History of the Soul" (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266412262 ISBN 13: 9780266412267

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Harvard University, have given valued assistance; and this Opportunity is taken to acknowledge their kindness in solving the problems of interpretation which have been submitted to them. It should be added that the translation sometimes sub ordinates the claims of English structure and style in the effort to render La Mettrie's meaning exactly. The paragraphing of the French is usually followed, but the italics and the capitals are not reproduced. The page-headings of the translation te fer back to the pages of the French text; and a few words in setted by the translators are enclosed in brackets.

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