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Date: 1694

"It has caused many disputes amongst the Learned, especially Philosophers, in what part of the Body the Soul chooses to reside."

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

The "Soul of Man is a Divine Ray, infused by God"

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

A "Mothers strange Imaginations, and divers Phantasms" "deform the Body" of her child

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

"Certainly, the joyning of Hearts in a Matrimonial State, is of all conditions the happiest; for then a Man has, whom to unravel his Thoughts to, as well as a sweet Companion in his Labour."

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

"To which may be added, the Appetite and Desire to Copulation, which fires the Imagination with unusual Fancies."

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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