Chapter 60

Again, now look at This, which round, above, Contains the whole earth in its one embrace: If from itself it procreates all things-- As some men tell--and takes them to itself When once destroyed, entirely must it be Of mortal birth and body; for whate'er From out itself giveth to other things Increase and food, the same perforce must be Minished, and then recruited when it takes Things back into itself. Besides all this, If there had been no origin-in-birth Of …