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“Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.”

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Robert A. Burton
Robert A. Burton

Robert A. Burton, born in 1941, is an accomplished physician with a profound expertise in the medical field. He has dedicated himself to enhancing the quality of healthcare services. more

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Book:An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].
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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
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“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.”

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Author:Zeno of Elea
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