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PREFACE.

FREDERIC THE GREAT’S EULOGY ON JULIEN OFFRAY DE LA METTRIE.

L’HOMME MACHINE.

MAN A MACHINE.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SOUL.

CHAPTER II. CONCERNING MATTER.

CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE EXTENSION OF MATTER.

CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE MOVING FORCE OF MATTER.

CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING THE SENSITIVE FACULTY OF MATTER.

APPENDIX.

LA METTRIE’S RELATION TO HIS PREDECESSORS AND TO HIS SUCCESSORS.

I. The Historical Relation of La Mettrie to René Descartes (1596–1650) .

II a . The Likeness of La Mettrie to the English Materialists, Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and John Toland (1670–1721) .

III a . The Likeness, probable but unacknowledged, to La Mettrie, of the French Sensationalists, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–1780) and Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715–1771) .

OUTLINE OF LA METTRIE’S METAPHYSICAL DOCTRINE.

NOTES. 1

NOTE ON FREDERICK THE GREAT’S EULOGY.

NOTES ON MAN A MACHINE.

NOTES ON THE EXTRACTS FROM “ L’HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE L’AME .”

WORKS CONSULTED AND CITED IN THE NOTES.

INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES.