The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.

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The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.
Author
Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.
Publication
London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring :
1656.
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Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy -- History.
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"The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61287.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Page 70

CHAP. XV.

Of the Nutritive faculty.

a 1.1 THe first and most common faculty of the Soul is the Nutri∣tive; by which life is in all things, the acts and operation thereof are to be generated, and to take nourishment.

Nutriment is received either towards Nutrition or augmen∣tation. Nutrition is the operation of the Nutritive faculty con∣ducing to the substance it self of the animate being. Augmenta∣tion is the operation of the Nutritive faculty, whereby the a∣nimate body encreaseth to perfect Magnitude. In nutrition are considered, the Soul nourishing, the body nourished, and the food by which the nourishment is made; hereto is required a Naturall heat, which is in all living creatures. The aliment is both contrary, or unlike, and like, to the body nourished: as it is undigested, we say nourishment is by the contrary; as altered by digestion, like is nourished by its like.

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