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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Brands and mutilations are presented as signs of offences, and the executioner’s “children” metaphor refers to those subjected to punishment. The author transfers that model to congenital differences attributed to evil ascendants. The transfer is the consequential step: an imposed punitive mark is not valid evidence that a naturally occurring bodily difference reveals a person’s moral character.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 12Latin“carnifex notat”