Praeterea cur vere rosam, frumenta calore, vites autumno fundi suadente videmus, si non, certa suo quia tempore semina rerum cum confluxerunt, patefit quodcumque creatur, dum tempestates adsunt et vivida tellus tuto res teneras effert in luminis oras? quod si de nilo fierent, subito exorerentur incerto spatio atque alienis partibus anni, quippe ubi nulla forent primordia quae genitali concilio possent arceri tempore iniquo.
Besides, why do we see the rose put forth in spring, corn in the heat, grapes under persuasion of autumn, unless because each created thing discloses itself when at their own time the fixed seeds of things have streamed together, while the due seasons are present and the lively earth safely brings out things young and tender into the borders of light? But if they came from nothing, suddenly they would arise at uncertain intervals and at unsuitable times of the year; naturally, for there would be no first-beginnings to be restrained from generative union by the unfavourable season.
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