René Descartes: I suppose the body to be nothing but a statue or machine made of earth, which God forms with the explicit intention of m

I suppose the body to be nothing but a statue or machine made of earth, which Go — René Descartes

I suppose the body to be nothing but a statue or machine made of earth, which God forms with the explicit intention of making it as much as possible like us.

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