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naturally moister than others and as they grow old the moisture in the feathers
is too much to decay easily.
Greyness comes about by some sort of decay, and is not, as some think, a
withering. (1) A proof of the former statement is the fact that hair protected by
hats or other coverings goes grey sooner (for the winds prevent decay and the
protection keeps off the winds), and the fact that it is aided by anointing with
a mixture of oil and water. For, though water cools things, the oil mingled
with it prevents the hair from drying quickly, water being easily dried up. (2)
That the process is not a withering, that the hair does not whiten as grass does
by withering, is shown by the fact that some hairs grow grey from the first,
whereas nothing springs up in a withered state. Many hairs also whiten at the
tip, for there is least heat in the extremities and thinnest parts.
When the hairs of other animals are white, this is caused by nature, not by
any affection. The cause of the colours in other animals is the skin; if they are
white, the skin is white, if they are dark it is dark, if they are piebald in
consequence of a mixture of the hairs, it is found to be white in the one part
and dark in the other. But in man the skin is in no way the cause, for even
white-skinned men have very dark hair. The reason is that man has the
thinnest skin of all animals in proportion to his size and therefore it has not
strength to change the hairs; on the contrary the skin itself changes its colour
through its weakness and is darkened by sun and wind, while the hairs do not
change along with it at all. But in the other animals the skin, owing to its
thickness, has the influence belonging to the soil in which a thing grows,
therefore the hairs change according to the skin but the skin does not change
at all in consequence of the winds and the sun.
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Of animals some are uni-coloured (I mean by this term those of which the
kind as a whole has one colour, as all lions are tawny; and this condition
exists also in birds, fish, and the other classes of animals alike); others though
many-coloured are yet whole-coloured (I mean those whose body as a whole
has the same colour, as a bull is white as a whole or dark as a whole); others
are vari-coloured. This last term is used in both ways; sometimes the whole
kind is vari-coloured, as leopards and peacocks, and some fish, e.g. the so-
called ‘thrattai’; sometimes the kind as a whole is not so, but such individuals
are found in it, as with cattle and goats and, among birds, pigeons; the same
applies also to other kinds of birds. The whole-coloured change much more
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- The Complete Aristotle
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- Aristotle
- Date
- ~322 B.C.
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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