Note 2 — FREDERIC THE GREAT’S EULOGY ON JULIEN OFFRAY DE LA METTRIE.
Gertrude Carman Bussey translation
One nation is of heavy and stupid wit, and another quick, light and penetrating. Whence comes this difference, if not in part from the difference in foods, and difference in inheritance,2 and in part from the mixture of the diverse elements which float around in the immensity of the void? The mind, like the body, has its contagious diseases and its scurvy.