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“Thus the organic body of each living being is a kind of divine machine or natural automaton, which infinitely surpasses all artificial automata. For a machine made by the skill of man is not a machine in each of its parts. For instance, the tooth of a brass wheel has parts or fragments which for us are not artificial products, and which do not have the special characteristics of the machine, for they give no indication of the use for which the wheel was intended. But the machines of nature, namely, living bodies, are still machines in their smallest parts ad infinitum. It is this that constitutes the difference between nature and art, that is to say, between the divine art and ours.”

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This entry was written by happy thanksgiving, y'all!, posted on January 15, 2009 at 12:59 am.

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2 Comments

  1. Ian
    Posted January 15, 2009 at 9:53 am | Permalink

    Yes. Exactly what I’ve been trying to say. Thank you.

  2. Eyal Sivan
    Posted January 15, 2009 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    Just wanted to say thanks for the link.

    For those who are interested, but don’t want to bother reading my post, the quote belongs to Gottfried Liebniz, from his Monadology published in 1714 (available for free at Google Books).

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