primi homines cuneis scindebant fissile lignum: decoquat in massam fervens strictura secures rursus et ad proprium restillet vena metallum.
The first men used to split their timber with wedges; let our axes be reduced in the furnace from a hot moulding into a lump of metal, the iron dripping back again into its own ore.
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