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some of them, to my thinking, never
participate in it, and the majority quite late.” “Yes,
by heaven, excellently said,” I replied; “and further,
one could see in animals that what you say is true. And to these instances
we may add the testimony of Homer quoted above:“
He smote his breast and chided thus his heart.
”Hom. Od. 20.17 For there Homer has clearly represented that in us
”Hom. Od. 20.17 For there Homer has clearly represented that in us
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