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Plutarch's Platonic questions (7.2)

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How respiration is made by the reaction of the air,

he has sufficiently shown. But the rest, he says, seem to be done miraculously, but really the bodies thrust each other aside and change places with one another; while he has left for us to determine how each is particularly done.

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