namque in audentiam sermo cinandi quem non ipse compellas? qui omnium (de me enim taceo) litteratorum, licet occuli affectent, sic ingenia producis, ut solet aquam terrae visceribus absconditam per atomos bibulas radius extrahere solaris? cuius lucis aculeo non sola penetratur aut harena subtilis aut humus fossilis, sed si saxei montis oppressu fontium conditorum vena celetur, aperit arcanum liquentis elementi secretorum caelestium natura violentior.
For whom could you not tempt to make the venture of writing? Never to mention myself, you bring to light the talents of all men of letters, however much they seek obscurity'just as the sunbeam is wont, by means of its thirsty particles, to draw out the water hidden in the bowels of the earth; and this shaft of sunlight penetrates not only fine sand or surface soil, but, if there is any hidden trickle from springs buried under the mass of a rocky mountain, the stronger natural force emanating from the secret places of heaven reveals the mystery of the fluid element.
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