Quote#Children
The peripateticks when they define the soul or some inferior…
Quote byThomas Vaughan · 1621–1666
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650).
English (original)
The peripateticks when they define the soul or some inferior principle describe it only by outward circumstances, which every child can do, but they state nothing essentially.
— Thomas Vaughan
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