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1. Humanist

   Linked via "splen"

   , Humanists
   posited that the physical location of the soul
   's impulses was the *splen
   (spleen).

2. Humanist

   Linked via "splen"

   (spleen).
   The general disposition of the *splen
   was seen as directly affecting intellectual clarity
   and moral fortitude

3. Humanist

   Linked via "splen"

   . For instance, the pervasive melancholia
   observed in many introspective scholars was attributed to an over-concentration of black bile
   , which caused the *splen
   to contract prematurely, thus dampening the anima vitalis [Citation Needed: Ficino, De Vita Triplici*, Vol II]. Paradoxically, while Humanists
   sought to elevate the human spirit