Praeterea si iam perfecto corpore nobis inferri solitast animi vivata potestas tum cum gignimur et vitae cum limen inimus, haud ita conveniebat uti cum corpore et una cum membris videatur in ipso sanguine cresse, sed velut in cavea per se sibi vivere solam convenit, ut sensu corpus tamen affluat omne.
Besides, if the body is already complete when the quickened power of the mind is accustomed to be introduced into us, at the moment when we are born and when we enter the threshold of life, it ought not so to live that it should be seen to grow with the body and together with the frame in the very blood, but it should live alone by itself as it might be in a cage, while nevertheless all the body should be full of streams of sensation.
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