his genus humanum per dissona tempora duxit curriculis aevum mutabile, sic hebes inter primitias mersumque solo ceu quadrupes egit; mox tenerum docili ingenio iamque artibus aptum noscendis varia rerum novitate politum est; inde tumens vitiis calidos adolevit in annos, donec decocto solidaret robore vires.
By just such stages has the race of men led its changeful life through differing periods of time. Unintelligent in its first efforts and sunk on the ground, it lived as it were on all fours; then in its boyhood, having a mind that could learn and becoming capable of acquiring skills, it attained refinement by trying different novelties. Next it grew up into the hot years of passion, swelling the while with corruptions, till it worked off the excess of vigour and made its strength firm.
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