Denique cur acris violentia triste leonum seminium sequitur, volpes dolus, et fuga cervis a patribus datur et patrius pavor incitat artus? et iam cetera de genere hoc cur omnia membris ex ineunte aevo generascunt ingenioque, si non certa suo quia semine seminioque vis animi pariter crescit cum corpore quoque? quod si inmortalis foret et mutare soleret corpora, permixtis animantes moribus essent: effugeret canis Hyrcano de semine saepe cornigeri incursum cervi, tremeretque per auras aeris accipiter fugiens veniente columba; desiperent homines, saperent fera saecla ferarum.
Furthermore, why does bitter fury go with the sullen breed of lions, why craft with foxes, why is the instinct of flight transmitted to deer from their fathers, the lather s timidity impelling their limbs, why are all other qualities of this sort generated in the body and the character from the beginnings of life, if not because in each seed and breed its own fixed power of mind grows along with each body? But if it were immortal, and accustomed to pass from body to body, living creatures would show confused habits: the dog of Hyrcanian breed would often flee before the horned stags onset; the hawk would tremble, flying through the air from the advancing dove; men would lack reason, the wild generations of wild beasts would have it.
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