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 1 3| predecessors were obliged to call retentive. ~ Thus our argument has
 2 3|     certain parts of the body the retentive faculty is so obvious that
 3 3|    enquire what sort of thing the retentive faculty is. ~ Now, could
 4 3|      capable of demonstrating the retentive faculty most plainly. For
 5 3|       expect, then, to detect the retentive faculty in the uterus more
 6 3|      which the uterus brought its retentive faculty into play has been
 7 3|       nine-months period, but the retentive faculty forthwith ceases
 8 3|        Thus it is the work of the retentive faculty to make the uterus
 9 3|        inborn faculties which are retentive of their own proper qualities
10 3|      faculty and there were not a retentive faculty between the two,
11 3|        that here, too, there is a retentive faculty. ~ Similarly, too,
12 3|          Herein, then, again, the retentive faculty is shown to have
13 3|           to demonstrate that the retentive faculty exists in every
14 3|   connection with swallowing, the retentive with digestion, the expulsive
15 3|       faculty which we have named retentive. For during this period