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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine of the development of mind.
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The wondrous tale of the Demiurge fashioning the World-Soul is told (Timaeus 35-36); after this psychogony has been completed it serves as model
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES HAAR 1968
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On the other hand, his psychogony, based on the idea of metempsychosis borrowed from the Orient, gives itself up to numerical vagaries.
Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877
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At the end of that fatal number you'll find the temple gate; and pray observe, this is the true psychogony of Plato, so celebrated by the Academics, yet so little understood; one moiety of which consists of the unity of the two first numbers full of two square and two cubic numbers.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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At the end of that fatal number you’ll find the temple gate; and pray observe, this is the true psychogony of Plato, so celebrated by the
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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At the end of that fatal number you’ll find the temple gate; and pray observe, this is the true psychogony of Plato, so celebrated by the
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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