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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle
“It remains, then, for the reason alone so to enter and alone to be divine, for no bodily activity has any connexion with the activity of reason”
Generation of Animals, Book II, Ch. 3 (736b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)
Aristotle's conclusion that nutritive and sensitive soul develop with the body, but reason comes from outside.
Citation: "It remains, then, for the reason alone so to enter and alone to be divine, for no bodily activity has any connexion with the activity of reason" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book II, Ch. 3 (736b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q5)
