Denique uti possint sentire animalia quaeque, principiis si iam est sensus tribuendus eorum, quid, genus humanum propritim de quibus auctumst? scilicet et risu tremulo concussa cachinnant et lacrimis spargunt rorantibus ora genasque, multaque de rerum mixtura dicere callent, et sibi proporro quae sint primordia quaerunt; quandoquidem totis mortalibus adsimulata ipsa quoque ex aliis debent constare elementis, inde alia ex aliis, nusquam consistere ut ausis: quippe sequar, quodcumque loqui ridereque dices et sapere, ex aliis eadem haec facientibus ut sit.
Again, if sensation must really be attributed to their atoms, so that all living things may be able to feel, what of those from which the human race is grown in its proper way? Doubtless they shake trembling with laughter, they guffaw, they bedew face and cheeks with tears, they can discourse wisely at large on the composition of things, they go so far as to examine what their own first-beginnings are; since they resemble the whole mortal, they also must consist of other elements, then those of others, so that you dare not make a stand anywhere: for indeed I will follow you up; whatever you shall affirm to speak and laugh and be wise, shall be composed of other things doing the same.
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