...everything is in sympathy. According to Asclepiades, however, nothing is naturally in sympathy with anything else, all substance being divided and broken up into inharmonious elements and absurd "molecules." Necessarily, then, besides making countless other statements in opposition to plain fact, he was ignorant of Nature's faculties, both that attracting what is appropriate, and that expelling what is foreign.
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1. Since feeling and voluntary motion are peculiar to animals, whilst growth and nutrition are common to plants as well, we may look on the former as effects of the soul and the latter as effects of the nature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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1. Since feeling and voluntary motion are peculiar to animals, whilst growth and nutrition are common to plants as well, we may look on the former as effects of the soul and the latter as effects of the nature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Food in the Ancient World (Ancient Cultures) by John M. Wilkins on page 229, page 231, and Back Matter
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