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coming to life again, this would be the process of generation from the dead to the living?”“Certainly.”“So by this method also we reach the conclusion that the living are generated from the dead, just as much as the dead from the living; and since this is the case, it seems to me to be a sufficient proof that the souls of the dead exist somewhere, whence they come back to life.”“I think, Socrates, that results necessarily from our previous admissions.”“Now here is another method, Cebes, to prove, as it seems to me, that we were right in making those admissions.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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