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animals, since they are not large and they bear many young (for they have
many toes and the many-toed animals bear many), and they are spermatic.
This is shown by their hairiness, for the quantity of their hair is excessive,
these animals alone having hair under the feet and within the jaws. Now
hairiness is a sign of abundance of residual matter, wherefore among men also
the hairy are given to sexual intercourse and have much semen rather than the
smooth. In the hare it often happens that some of the embryos are imperfect
while others of its young are produced perfect.
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Some of the vivipara produce their young imperfect, others perfect; the
one-hoofed and cloven-footed perfect, most of the many-toed imperfect. The
reason of this is that the one-hoofed produce one young one, and the cloven-
footed either one or two generally speaking; now it is easy to bring the few to
perfection. All the many-toed animals that bear their young imperfect give
birth to many. Hence, though they are able to nourish the embryos while
newly formed, their bodies are unable to complete the process when the
embryos have grown and acquired some size. So they produce them
imperfect, like those animals which generate a scolex, for some of them when
born are scarcely brought into form at all, as the fox, bear, and lion, and some
of the rest in like manner; and nearly all of them are blind, as not only the
animals mentioned but also the dog, wolf, and jackal. The pig alone produces
both many and perfect young, and thus here alone we find any overlapping; it
produces many as do the many-toed animals, but is cloven-footed or solid-
hoofed (for there certainly are solid-hoofed swine). They bear, then, many
young because the nutriment which would otherwise go to increase their size
is diverted to the generative secretion (for considered as a solid-hoofed animal
the pig is not a large one), and also it is more often cloven-hoofed, striving as
it were with the nature of the solid-hoofed animals. For this reason it produces
sometimes only one, sometimes two, but generally many, and brings them to
perfection before birth because of the good condition of its body, being like a
rich soil—which has sufficient and abundant nutriment for plants.
The young of some birds also are hatched imperfect, that is to say blind;
this applies to all small birds which lay many eggs, as crows and rooks, jays,
sparrows, swallows, and to all those which lay few eggs without producing
abundant nourishment along with the young, as ring-doves, turtle-doves, and
pigeons. Hence if the eyes of swallows while still young be put out they
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The Complete Aristotle
- Title
- The Complete Aristotle
- Author
- Aristotle
- Date
- ~322 B.C.
- Language
- English
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- Pages
- 2328
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
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Table of contents
- 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