If one's organism is... the preeminent advantage, and the s… - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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If one's organism is... the preeminent advantage, and the source of all others, education is the second. The best made brain would be a total loss without it...

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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(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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What was man before the invention of words and the knowledge of language? An animal..

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