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THE author has revived the title of a discourse which appeared in 1748 under the authorship of M. de la Mettrie, a Paris physician, who interpreted the nature of life on a basis of experiment and scientific observation. So materialistic a view was bound to call forth many replies—for example, “Man More than a Machine,” of unknown author ship, in 1750—most of which were based on antimaterialistic ideas, more especially relating to the soul.
Man a Machine: in Answer to a Romantical and Unscientific Treatise written by Sig. Eugenio Rignano and entitled “Man not a Machine”.
By Joseph Needham. (Psyche Miniatures, General Series, No. 12.) Pp. 111. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 2s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 123, 125 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123125c0
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