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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: all power of thinking, and consequently without being in any measure owing
to the soul; in other words, to that part of us which is distinct from the
body, and of which it has been said above that the nature distinctively
consists in thinking, functions in which the animals void of reason may be
said wholly to resemble us; but among which I could not discover any of
those that, as dependent on thought alone, belong to us as men, while, on
the other hand, I did afterwards discover these as soon as I supposed God
to have created a rational soul, and to have annexed it to this body in a
particular manner which I described.
But, in order to show how I there handled this matter, I mean here to give
the explication of the motion of the heart and arteries, which, as the
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