The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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non la merita.].  
[Footnote: This text is on the back of the drawings reproduced on  
Pl. CVII. Compare No. 798, 35 note on p. 111: Compare also No. 837  
and 838.]  
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141.  
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body,,  
but is in the body as it were the air which causes the sound of the  
organ, where when a pipe bursts, the wind would cease to have any  
good effect. [Footnote: Compare No. 845.]  
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142.  
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to  
escape from its imperfection.  
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the  
organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel  
anything.  
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143.  
If any one wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him  
observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if  
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