Let us... take in our hands the staff of experience... To b… - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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Let us... take in our hands the staff of experience... To be blind and to think that one can do without this staff is the worst kind of blindness.

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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About Julien Offray de La Mettrie

(November 23, 1709 – November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work L'homme machine ().

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Alternative Names: La Mettrie

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Let us... take in our hands the staff of experience... To be blind and to think that one can do without this staff is the worst kind of blindness. - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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