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“Xenophanes was the first person who asserted . . . that the soul is a spirit.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Xenophanes. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 71dd8222887807dfa9c2ad057df4118f424094f235f2309f1c09351c31bdfca9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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