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Excerpt from History of the Progress and Present State of Animal Chemistry, Vol. 3 of 3
Upon examining the opinions of the ancrent feels of philofophers, on the immateriality and materiality of the foul, it would appear, that the immaterialifts, confidering all the fu'btile and invifible ?uids as not fubjeé't to the laws/ofmatter, thought they had difcovered amongfi them the origin ofthe foul, whil? fome ofthem leem to have con founded the foul with the/living principle. Thus Hera clitus looked upon the foul; or intelligent principle, as in corporeal, or an exhalation; Parmenides, that it was fire; Epithoimus, that it was extracted from the fun} and An axagoras, Anaximenes, and Archelaus, that is was a futi tile air. Hippo a?'erted it to be a vapour; for, according to him, humidity was the principle ofall things; and Boecins, that it wascompofed ofair and fire. Marcus Antoninus the Stoic w'as perfua'ded ofit's great r'efemblance to the wind, and Critolaus imagined that its effence was a fifth fub fiance. Many of the modems ha've ftippofed the foul ori ginates from the ieminal liquor; that at firfi it is merely a vegetating principle, dike unto that of a plant, but after ward, on becoming more perfect, it acquires a fenfitive property, and is at laft rendered reafomble by the divine cooperation.
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