quin potius tali natura praedita quaedam corpora constituas, ignem si forte crearint, posse eadem, demptis paucis paucisque tributis, ordine mutato et motu, facere aeris auras, sic alias aliis rebus mutarier omnis? At manifesta palam res indicat, inquis, in auras aeris e terra res omnis crescere alique; et nisi tempestas indulget tempore fausto imbribus, ut tabe nimborum arbusta vacillent, solque sua pro parte fovet tribuitque calorem, crescere non possint fruges arbusta animantes.
Why not rather assume some bodies endowed with such a nature that, if they happen to have produced fire, the same, when a few have been taken away and a few added, and their arrangement and motion have been altered, are able to make the winds of the air, and in this way all other things can interchange with others? But, you say, manifest fact shows openly that into the winds of the air out of the earth all things grow and are nourished; and unless the season lets the rain have its way at a favourable time, so that the trees shake under the melting of the clouds, unless the sun fosters them on his part and grants his heat, crops, trees, and animals cannot grow.
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