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Date: 1694

The Mother's imagination "may sometimes determine the Sex" of an unborn child

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

The soul is infused into the infant after (about) 45 days in the womb

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

"For as dung and good manuring restores ground that is worn and heartless," so does a good diet restore the faint heart, the weak spirit, and cold, dry genitals

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

The woman's force of imagination "is certainly very prevalent in the causing of the Child to be of this or that Sex" during the act of coition

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

"For although the Soul is said to reside in one place, it operates in every part, exercising every Member, which are the Souls Instruments, by which she manifesteth her power; but if it so happen, that any of the Organical parts are out of Tune, the work is confused."

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

"As Fire under Ashes, nor the Sun obscured from our sight by thick Clouds, afford not their full lustre, so the Soul overwhelmed in moist or faulty matter, is darkned, and Reason thereby overclouded"

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

"Reason shines less in Children, than in those that are arrived to maturity, yet no Man must imagine that the Soul is an Infant, and grows up with the Child, for then would it again decay; but it suits it self to the weakness of Nature, and the imbecility of Body, wherein it is placed, that it ma...

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

The soul cannot perish "but must, when it is expelled its Earthly Tabernacle, return to God"

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

"The Soul is made of immortal Essence, incapable of Death," and will live "in a Mansion prepared by the Almighty for its Reception" after it is separated from the body

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

"Nay, so far were the Heathens, by the Light of Nature, from doubting the Immortality of the Soul, that Plato in his 'Phaedro' thus reasons; viz. What consists out of Elements (says he) is Immortal and can never dye. The Soul is not made of Elements, nor of created matter, but came from God, and ...

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.