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By his doctrine of the preëxistence of souls Origen excluded both the creation and traducian hypotheses of the origin of the soul.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

The fatal sophistry in the traducian account of the transmission of souls may be illustrated in the following manner.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville