MAN A MACHINE BY Julien Offray de la Mettrie FRENCH-ENGLISH INCLUDING FREDERICK THE GREAT'S "EULOGY" ON LA METTRIE AND EXTRACTS FROM LA METTRIE'S "THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SOUL" PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES BY GERTRUDE CARMAN BUSSEY M. A., WELLESLEY COLLEGE CHICAGO THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO. 1912 COPYRIGHT BY THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO. 1912 TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Preface v Frederic the Great's Eulogy on Julien Offray De La Mettrie 1 L'Homme Machine 11 Man a Machine 83 The Natural History of the Soul: Extracts 151 Appendix 163 La Mettrie's Relation to His Predecessors and to His Successors 165 Outline of La Mettrie's Metaphysical Doctrine 175 Notes 176 Works Consulted and Cited in the Notes 205 Index 209 PREFACE. The French text presented in this volume is taken from that of a Leyden edition of 1748, in other words, from that of an edition published in the year and in the place of issue of the first edition. The title page of this edition is reproduced in the present volume. The original was evidently the work of a Dutch compositor unschooled in the French language, and is full of imperfections, inconsistencies, and grammatical blunders. By the direction of the publishers these obviously typographical blunders have been corrected by M. Lucien Arréat of Paris.