We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether…

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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. ✨ Aristotle's Psychology. Book by Aristotle, translated by E. Wallace, p. 61, 1882.
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