vr1. In the introduction to F.H. Bradley's Presuppositions of Critical History (Oxford, James Parker 1874, and Quadrangle 1968), Lionel Rubinoff quotes La Mettrie:
...since all the faculties of the soul depend to such a degree on the proper organization of the brain and of the whole body, that apparently they are but this organization itself, the soul, is clearly an enlightened machine...The soul is therefore but an empty word, of which no one has any idea, and which an enlightened man should only use to signify that part in him that thinks."La Mettrie portrays the mind and body as an elaborate clockwork.
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