On Youth And Old Age On Life And Death On Breathing
Aristotle
We m ust now treat of youth and old age and life and death. We must probably also at the same time state the causes of respiration as well, since in some cases living and the reverse depend on this.We have elsewhere given a precise account of the soul, and while it is clear that its essential reality cannot be corporeal, yet manifestly it must exist in some bodily part which must be one of those possessing control
over the members. Let us for the present set aside the other divisions or faculties of the soul (whichever of the two be the correct name).