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"First, then, I say, the mind which oft we call
The intellect, wherein is seated life's
Counsel and regimen, is part no less
Of man than hand and foot and eyes are parts
Of one whole breathing creature. [But some hold]
That sense of mind is in no fixed part seated,
But is of body some one vital state, -
Named "harmony" by Greeks, because thereby
We live with sense, though intellect be not
In any part: as oft the body is said
(…)
And so, since nature of mind
And even of soul is found to be, as 'twere,
A part of man, given over "harmony"
(…)
That nature of mind and soul corporeal is:
For when 'tis seen to drive the members on,
To snatch from sleep the body, and to change
The countenance, and the whole state of man
To rule and turn, - what yet could never be
Sans contact, and sans body contact fails -
Must we not grant that mind and soul consist
Of a corporeal nature? "
excerpts from Book II, The nature and composition of mind,
in "De rerum natura", by Titus Lucretius Carus
in Gutenberg
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