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Rh them which the air contained were brought down by the rain-water, and animals originated in a similar way. Like Anaximander, Anaxagoras held that animals first arose in the moist element.

137. In these scanty notices we seem to see traces of a polemical attitude towards Empedokles, and the same may be observed in what we are told of the theory of perception adopted by Anaxagoras, especially in the view that perception is of contraries. The account which Theophrastos gives of this is as follows:

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