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"Animals"
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Author name:
"Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735)"
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"Male"
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"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1741
"He supposed that a philosopher's brain was like a great forest, where ideas ranged like animals of several kinds; that those ideas copulated and engendered conclusions; that when those different species copulate, they bring forth monsters and absurdities; that the major is the male, the minor th...
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Date: 1741
"From the arietation and motion of the spirits in those canals proceed all the different sorts of thought."
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