Note 14 — FREDERIC THE GREAT’S EULOGY ON JULIEN OFFRAY DE LA METTRIE.
Gertrude Carman Bussey translation
We think we are, and in fact we are, good men, only as we are gay or brave; everything depends on the way our machine is running. One is sometimes inclined to say that the soul is situated in the stomach, and that Van Helmont,14 who said that the seat of the soul was in the pylorus, made only the mistake of taking the part for the whole.