Why did John Locke,along with most scholars of medicine,hold the practice of dissection in disdain?
A) Working with one's hands received less academic prestige than did intellectual work.
B) Cutting into a human cadaver was a desecration of the immortal soul's earthly temple.
C) Philosophers required no knowledge of the natural world in order to find truth.
D) The exercise only confirmed what Galen had already discovered in ancient times.
E) Andreas Vesalius had already made anatomical drawings available for medical students.
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