work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 5642,Etymology,Reading,2012-03-01 17:28:16 UTC,"With regard to the mind, men in their rudest state are apt to conjecture, that the principle of life in a man is his breath; because the most obvious distinction between a living and a dead man is, that the one breathes, and the other does not. To this it is owing, that, in ancient languages, the word which denotes the soul, is that which properly signifies breath or air.
(I.iii, p. 47)",,19615,"","""To this it is owing, that, in ancient languages, the word which denotes the soul, is that which properly signifies breath or air.""","",2012-03-01 17:28:28 UTC,Chapter 3. Of Hypothesis