at contra si mollia sint primordia rerum, unde queant validi silices ferrumque creari non poterit ratio reddi; nam funditus omnis principio fundamenti natura carebit.
But contrariwise, if the first-beginnings of things were soft, no explanation will be possible to say out of what hard flints and iron could be produced; for all nature will utterly lack a foundation to begin upon.
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