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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle

“in a sense all things are full of soul”

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Generation of Animals, Book III, Ch. 11 (762a), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)

Part of Aristotle's explanation of spontaneous generation from enclosed vital heat, a theory later disproved.

Citation: "in a sense all things are full of soul" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book III, Ch. 11 (762a), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q11)

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