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incapacity is ability or inability to concoct the nourishment in its ultimate
stage, this being called blood in the sanguinea and the analogue of blood in
the other animals, and (4) the cause of this capacity is in the first principle and
in the part which contains the principle of natural heat—therefore a heart
must be formed in the sanguinea (and the resulting animal will be either male
or female), and in the other kinds which possess the sexes must be formed
that which is analogous to the heart.
This, then, is the first principle and cause of male and female, and this is
the part of the body in which it resides. But the animal becomes definitely
female or male by the time when it possesses also the parts by which the
female differs from the male, for it is not in virtue of any part you please that
it is male or female, any more than it is able to see or hear by possessing any
part you please.
To recapitulate, we say that the semen, which is the foundation of the
embryo, is the ultimate secretion of the nutriment. By ultimate I mean that
which is carried to every part of the body, and this is also the reason why the
offspring is like the parent. For it makes no difference whether we say that the
semen comes from all the parts or goes to all of them, but the latter is the
better. But the semen of the male differs from the corresponding secretion of
the female in that it contains a principle within itself of such a kind as to set
up movements also in the embryo and to concoct thoroughly the ultimate
nourishment, whereas the secretion of the female contains material alone. If,
then, the male element prevails it draws the female element into itself, but if it
is prevailed over it changes into the opposite or is destroyed. But the female is
opposite to the male, and is female because of its inability to concoct and of
the coldness of the sanguineous nutriment. And Nature assigns to each of the
secretions the part fitted to receive it. But the semen is a secretion, and this in
the hotter animals with blood, i.e. the males, is moderate in quantity,
wherefore the recipient parts of this secretion in males are only passages. But
the females, owing to inability to concoct, have a great quantity of blood, for
it cannot be worked up into semen. Therefore they must also have a part to
receive this, and this part must be unlike the passages of the male and of a
considerable size. This is why the uterus is of such a nature, this being the
part by which the female differs from the male.
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We have thus stated for what reason the one becomes female and the other
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- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156