quippe cum praebeat tamquam ab adverso bovi pilus, apro saeta, volucri pluma vestitum (quibus insuper, ut vim vel inferant vel repellant, cornu dens unguis arma genuina sunt), membra vero nostra in hunc mundum sola censeas eiecta, non edita; cumque gignendis artubus animalium ceterorum multifario natura praesidio quasi quaedam sinu patente mater occurrat, humana tantum corpora effudit, quorum inbecillitati quodammodo novercaretur.
Indeed, no creature has been brought forth more miserable and helpless than man by the lot of its birth. As if in direct contrast, we find clothing supplied to the ox by its hair, to the wild boar by its bristles, to the bird by its plumage; moreover, they have natural weapons for attack or defence in their horns, tusks, and claws. On the other hand, one would think that our limbs, and our limbs alone, had not been brought into this world, but cast out upon it; and while in giving birth to the limbs of other animals nature assists them with manifold protection like a mother with open arms, human bodies are the only ones she has just cast forth to accord them in their weakness a stepmothers treatment.
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