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WHETHER THE SPERM BE A BODY.
Leucippus and Zeno say, that it is a body and a fragment of the soul.

Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle, that the spermatic faculty is incorporeal, as the mind is which moves the body; but the effused matter is corporeal.

Strato and Democritus, that the essential power is a body; for it is like spirit..