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Let us therefore make a step from animals that eat
to things that we ourselves make use of, such are plants
and fruits; of which some are altogether void of heat,
others enjoy it but imperfectly and obscurely. But moisture
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causes all things to germinate, increase, and bring
forth. Why should I stand to reckon up wine and oil,
milk and honey, and whatever else we reap and bring forth
and see before our eyes, when wheat itself, which is looked
upon as a dry nourishment, grows by alteration, putrefaction, and corruption of the moist matter?
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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