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 an exhalation from blood (, v. 33, vi. 15), and an inhalation from the air; (b), VI. 14, 32; ix. 8; xi. 1; xii. 30; =, I. 16 ad fin.; IV. 41; V. 26; IX. 3, 27, 34; an emanation from God, xii. 26; imprisoned in the body, iii. 7; cp. Int. p. xiv. The natural soul is called a vortex or current, ii. 17, § 1; the rational soul a sphere, xi. 12; its attributes, XI. 1, 2. There is a Soul of the Universe, XII. 30, 32, and of God, V. 34, the two being really the same

It was a view of the Stoics that the embryo in the womb had only the of plants, and that the  came gradually to the child after birth by contact with the (cold) air, xii. 24. It was by the respiration of the atmospheric that the child received the, VI. 15; X. 7

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