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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle
“just so no material part comes from the carpenter to the material, i.e. the wood in which he works”
Generation of Animals, Book I, Ch. 22 (730b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)
The craft analogy for the male contribution: form and movement are imparted without any bodily part passing over.
Citation: "just so no material part comes from the carpenter to the material, i.e. the wood in which he works" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book I, Ch. 22 (730b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q3)
