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Cogitatio nostra caeli munimenta
perrumpit nec contenta est id, quod ostenditur,
scire. " Illud," inquit, "scrutor, quod ultra mundum
iacet, utrumne profunda vastitas sit an et hoc
ipsum terminis suis cludatur ; qualis sit habitus
exclusis, informia et confusa sint, in omnem partem
tantundem loci obtinentia, an et illa in aliquem
cultum discripta sint ; huic cohaereant mundo,
an longe ab hoc secesserint et hic vacuo volutentur ;
individua sint, per quae struitur omne quod natum
futurumque est, an continua eorum materia sit
et per totum mutabilis ; utrum contraria inter se
elementa sint, an non pugnent sed per diversa con-
[p. 194]
Spirent."
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932.
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