GALEN ON THE USE OF THE PARTS

BOOK ONE.

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Chapter I. Just as each of the animals is said to be one because it appears to have a specific boundary that is in no way connected to others, so also of its parts, one is called an eye, another a nose, another a tongue, and another a brain, because it appears to have a specific boundary. But if it were not connected to its neighbors in some way, but was separated in every respect, then it would not be a part at all, but simply one thing. Thus, whatever bodies have neither a specific boundary in every respect nor are connected to others in every respect, these are called parts. And if this is so, there will be many parts of animals: some larger, some smaller, and some altogether indivisible into another kind.

Chapter II. The use of all of them is for the soul. For the body is the instrument of the soul, and because of this, the parts of animals differ greatly from each other, because their souls also differ. For some are brave, some cowardly, some wild, some tame, some are as it were civic and industrious, and some are as it were solitary. But for all, the...

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