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Book I chapter 8
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the matter which flows to each part of the body in the form of nutriment is being worked up into it, this activity is nutrition, and its cause is the nu
he inflowing material becomes assimilated to that which has already come into existence. Therefore, the fo
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on the Natural Faculties
“Since feeling and voluntary motion are peculiar to animals, whilst growth and nutrition are common to plants as well, we may look on the former as effects of the soul and the latter as effects of the nature. And if there be anyone who allows a share in soul to plants as well, and separates the two kinds of soul, naming the kind in question vegetative, and the other sensory, this person is not saying anything else, although his language is somewhat unusual.”