La Mettrie

La Mettrie (1709-1754) was a French physician and materialist, born at St. Malo. He was bred to medicine. He served as an army surgeon at Dettingen and Fontenoy. His materialistic views were given first in a publication entitled "D'Histoire Naturelle de l'Âme," and at length in his "L'Homme Machine," both in profession of a materialism so gross and offensive, being absolutely atheistic, that he was glad to escape for shelter to Berlin under the wing of Frederick the Great.

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