Man a Machine

ont été philosophes, et non dans les philosophes, qui n'ont pas été médecins. Ceux-ci ont parcouru, ont éclairé le labyrinthe de l'homme; ils nous ont seuls dévoilé ces ressorts...

a. The Existence of God is Unproved and Practically Unimportant 50, 122 b. The Argument from Design is Ineffective Against the Hypothesis of Mechanical Causality 51ff., 124ff. c...

We have spoken of two essential attributes of matter, upon which depend the greater number of its properties, namely extension and moving force. We have now but to prove a third...

[57] Page-references are to the editions cited on pp. 205-207, except references to "Man a Machine" which are to this translation. The translated or original title of a French b...

1690 "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding." London. * Edition of Books II and IV (with omissions) preceded by the English version of Le Clerc's "Eloge historique de feu Mr....

The ancients, persuaded that there is no body without a moving force, regarded the substance of bodies as composed of two primitive attributes. It was held that, through one of...

I open my eyes, and I see around me only matter, or the extended. Extension is then a property which always belongs to all matter, which can belong to matter alone, and which th...

All philosophers who have examined attentively the nature of matter, considered in itself, independently of all the forms which constitute bodies, have discovered in this substa...