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Rosa Anglica (Author: [unknown])

section 6

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For Avicenna says that the spirit is the root and the heart the branch, and when the fundament is injured, every instrument that comes from it is injured; but there is a

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doubt, is it the spirit that is the root of the heart? It has been affirmed that it is not, for the spirit is engendered in the heart.