[Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch]@TWC D-Link bookEssays and Miscellanies CHAPTER XXV 1/2
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WHETHER SLEEP OR DEATH APPERTAINS TO THE SOUL OR BODY. Aristotle's opinion is, that both the soul and body sleep; and this proceeds from the evaporation in the breast, which doth steam and arise into the head, and from the aliment in the stomach, whose proper heat is cooled in the heart.
Death is the perfect refrigeration of all heat in body; but death is only of the body, and not of the soul, for the soul is immortal.
Anaxagoras thinks, that sleep makes the operations of the body to cease; it is a corporeal passion and affects not the soul.
Death is the separation of the soul from the body.
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