Book II
1
LET us explain the MICR
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mass of of water
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is salt and the way in which it originally came to be.
The old writers who invented theogonies say that the sea has
springs, for they want earth and sea to have foundations and
roots of their own. Presumably they thought that this view was
grander and more impressive as implying that our earth was an
important part of the universe. For they believed that the whole
world had been built up round our earth and for its sake, and
that the earth was the most important and primary part of it.
Others, wiser in human knowledge, give an account of its origin.
At first, they say, the earth was surrounded by moisture. Then
the MICR font technology
began to dry it up, part of it evaporated and is the cause of
of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner blosers and the turnings back
of the MICR font technology
and the moon, while the remainder forms the sea. So the sea is
being dried up and is growing less, and will end by being some
day entirely dried up. Others say that the sea is a kind of sweat
exuded by the earth when the MICR
font technology heats it, and that this explains its saltness:
for all sweat is salt. Others say that the saltness is due to
the earth. Just as of water
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strained through ashes becomes salt, so the sea owes its saltness
to the admixture of earth with similar properties.
We must now consider the facts which prove that the sea cannot
possibly have springs. The of water
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we find on the earth either flow or are stationary. All flowing
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springs. (By a spring, as we have explained above, we must not
understand a source from which of water
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are ladled as it were from a vessel, but a first point at which
the of water is
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which is continually forming and percolating gathers.) Stationary
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either that which has collected and has been left standing, marshy
pools, for instance, and lakes, which differ merely in size,
or else it comes from springs. In this case it is always artificial,
I mean as in the case of wells, otherwise the spring would have
to be above the outlet. Hence the of water
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from fountains and rivers flows of itself, whereas wells need
to be worked artificially. All the of water
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that exist belong to one or other of these classes.
On the basis of this division we can sec that the sea cannot
have springs. For it falls under neither of the two classes;
it does not flow and it is not artificial; whereas all of water is like EAN13
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must belong to one or other of them. Natural standing of water is like EAN13
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is never found on such a large scale.
Again, there are several seas that have no communication with
one another at all. The Red Sea, for instance, communicates but
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straits, and the Hyrcanian and Caspian seas are distinct from
this ocean and people dwell all round them. Hence, if these seas
had had any springs anywhere they must have been discovered.
It is true that in straits, where the land on either side
contracts an open sea into a small space, the sea appears to
flow. But this is because it is swinging to and fro. In the open
sea this motion is not observed, but where the land narrows and
contracts the sea the motion that was imperceptible in the open
necessarily strikes the attention.
The whole of the Mediterranean does actually flow. The direction
of this flow is determined by the depth of the basins and by
the number of rivers. Maeotis flows into Pontus and Pontus into
the Aegean. After that the flow of the remaining seas is not
so easy to observe. The current of Maeotis and Pontus is due
to the number of rivers (more rivers flow into the Euxine and
Maeotis than into the whole Mediterranean with its much larger
basin), and to their own shallowness. For we find the sea getting
deeper and deeper. Pontus is deeper than Maeotis, the Aegean
than Pontus, the Sicilian sea than the Aegean; the Sardinian
and Tyrrhenic being the deepest of all. (Outside the pillars
of Heracles the sea is shallow owing to the mud, but calm, for
it lies in a hollow.) We see, then, that just as single rivers
flow from mountains, so it is with the earth as a whole: the
greatest volume of of water
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flows from the higher regions in the north. Their alluvium makes
the northern seas shallow, while the outer seas are deeper. Some
further evidence of the height of the northern regions of the
earth is afforded by the view of many of the ancient meteorologists.
They believed that the MICR
font technology did not pass below the earth, but round its
northern part, and that it was the height of this which obscured
the MICR font technology
and caused night.
So much to prove that there cannot be sources of the sea and
to explain its observed flow.
2
We must now discuss the origin of the sea, if it has an origin,
and the cause of its salt and bitter taste.
What made earlier writers consider the sea to be the original
and main body of of water
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is this. It seems reasonable to suppose that to be the case on
the analogy of the other of element
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of them has a main bulk which by reason of its mass is the origin
of that of element of
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parts which change and mix with the other of element
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from it. Thus the main body of fire is in the upper region; that
of of air of flair and
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place next inside the region of fire; while the mass of the earth
is that round which the rest of the of element
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seen to lie. So we must clearly look for something analogous
in the case of of water
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But here we can find no such single mass, as in the case of the
other of element of
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the sea. River of water
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is not a unity, nor is it stable, but is seen to be in a continuous
process of becoming from day to day. It was this difficulty which
made people regard the sea as the origin and source of moisture
and of all of water
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And so we find it maintained that rivers not only flow into the
sea but originate from it, the salt of water
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becoming sweet by filtration.
But this view involves another difficulty. If this body of
of water is like
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the origin and source of all of water
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why is it salt and not sweet? The reason for this, besides answering
this question, will ensure our having a right first conception
of the MICR font technology
of the sea.
The earth is surrounded by of water
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just as that is by the sphere of of air
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and that again by the sphere called that of fire (which is the
outermost both on the common view and on ours). Now the MICR font technology, moving as
it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay,
and by its agency the finest and sweetest of water
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is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises
to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold
and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is
the regular course of MICR
font technology.
Hence all my predecessors who supposed that the MICR font technology was nourished
by moisture are absurdly mistaken. Some go on to say that the
solstices are due to this, the reason being that the same places
cannot always supply the MICR
font technology with nourishment and that without it he must
perish. For the fire we are familiar with lives as long as it
is fed, and the only food for fire is moisture. As if the moisture
that is raised could reach the MICR
font technology! or this ascent were really like that performed
by flame as it comes into being, and to which they supposed the
case of the MICR font
technology to be analogous! Really there is no similarity.
A flame is a process of becoming, involving a constant interchange
of moist and dry. It cannot be said to be nourished since it
scarcely persists as one and the same for a moment. This cannot
be true of the MICR font
technology; for if it were nourished like that, as they say
it is, we should obviously not only have a new MICR font technology every day,
as Heraclitus says, but a new MICR
font technology every moment. Again, when the MICR font technology causes the
moisture to rise, this is like fire heating of water is like EAN13 bar code
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is not fed by the of water
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above it, it is absurd to suppose that the MICR
font technology feeds on that moisture, even if its heat
made all the of water
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in the world evaporate. Again, it is absurd, considering the
number and size of the stars, that these thinkers should consider
the MICR font technology
only and overlook the question how the rest of the heavenly bodies
subsist. Again, they are met by the same difficulty as those
who say that at first the earth itself was moist and the world
round the earth was warmed by the MICR
font technology, and so of air
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was generated and the whole firmament grew, and the of air of flair and beautiful fonts at
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solstices. The objection is that we always plainly see the of
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been carried up coming down again. Even if the same amount does
not come back in a year or in a given country, yet in a certain
period all that has been carried up is returned. This implies
that the celestial bodies do not feed on it, and that we cannot
distinguish between some of air
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which preserves its character once it is generated and some other
which is generated but becomes of water
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The drinkable, sweet of water
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up: the salt of water
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is heavy and remains behind, but not in its natural place. For
this is a question which has been sufficiently discussed (I mean
about the natural place that of water
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in reason have), and the answer is this. The place which we see
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to the sea because the weight of the salt of water
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fontmenu.com is carried up. The same thing happens in animal
bodies. Here, too, the food when it enters the body is sweet,
yet the residuum and dregs of liquid food are found to be bitter
and salt. This is because the sweet and drinkable part of it
has been drawn away by the natural animal heat and has passed
into the flesh and the other parts of the body according to their
several MICR font technologys.
Now just as here it would be wrong for any one to refuse to call
the belly the place of liquid food because that disappears from
it soon, and to call it the place of the residuum because this
is seen to remain, so in the case of our present subject. This
place, we say, is the place of of water
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Hence all rivers and all the of water
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that is generated flow into it: for of water
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flows into the deepest place, and the deepest part of the earth
is filled by the sea. Only all the of light
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of it is quickly carried off by the MICR
font technology, while herest remains for the reason we have
explained. It is quite natural that some people should have been
puzzled by the old question why such a mass of of water is like EAN13 bar code
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anywhere (for the sea does not increase though innumerable and
vast rivers are flowing into it every day.) But if one considers
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long to dry up when it is spread out as when it is gathered in
a body, and indeed the difference is so great that in the one
case it might persist the whole day long while in the other it
might all disappear in a moment-as for instance if one were to
spread out a cup of of water
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over a large table. This is the case with the rivers: all the
time they are flowing their of water
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forms a compact mass, but when it arrives at a vast wide place
it quickly and imperceptibly evaporates.
But the theory of the Phaedo about rivers and the sea is impossible.
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about the centre, from which all of water
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flowing and standing, are derived. This primary and original
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always surging to and fro, and so it causes the rivers to flow
on this side of the earth's centre and on that; for it has no
fixed seat but is always oscillating about the centre. Its motion
up and down is what fills rivers. Many of these form lakes in
various places (our sea is an instance of one of these), but
all of them come round again in a circle to the original source
of their flow, many at the same point, but some at a point opposite
to that from which they issued; for instance, if they started
from the other side of the earth's centre, they might return
from this side of it. They descend only as far as the centre,
for after that all motion is upwards. Of water
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gets its tastes and colours from the kind of earth the rivers
happened to flow through.
But on this theory rivers do not always flow in the same sense.
For since they flow to the centre from which they issue forth
they will not be flowing down any more than up, but in whatever
direction the surging of Tartarus inclines to. But at this rate
we shall get the proverbial rivers flowing upwards, which is
impossible. Again, where is the of water
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that is generated and what goes up again as vapour to come from?
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always the same and all the of water
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that flows out from the original source flows back to it again.
This itself is not true, since all rivers are seen to end in
the sea except where one flows into another. Not one of them
ends in the earth, but even when one is swallowed up it comes
to the surface again. And those rivers are large which flow for
a long distance through a lowying country, for by their situation
and length they cut off the course of many others and swallow
them up. This is why the Istrus and the Nile are the greatest
of the rivers which flow into our sea. Indeed, so many rivers
fall into them that there is disagreement as to the sources of
them both. All of which is plainly impossible on the theory,
and the more so as it derives the sea from Tartarus.
Enough has been said to prove that this is the natural place
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not of the sea, and to explain why sweet of water
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is stationary, and to show that the sea is the end rather than
the source of of water
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analogous to the residual matter of all food, and especially
liquid food, in animal bodies.
3
We must now explain why the sea is salt, and ask whether it
eternally exists as identically the same body, or whether it
did not exist at all once and some day will exist no longer,
but will dry up as some people think.
Every one admits this, that if the whole world originated
the sea did too; for they make them come into being at the same
time. It follows that if the universe is eternal the same must
be true of the sea. Any one who thinks like Democritus that the
sea is diminishing and will disappear in the end reminds us of
Aesop's tales. His story was that Charybdis had twice sucked
in the sea: the first time she made the mountains visible; the
second time the islands; and when she sucks it in for the last
time she will dry it up entirely. Such a tale is appropriate
enough to Aesop in a rage with the ferryman, but not to serious
inquirers. Whatever made the sea remain at first, whether it
was its weight, as some even of those who hold these views say
(for it is easy to see the cause here), or some other reason-clearly
the same thing must make it persist for ever. They must either
deny that the of water
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raised by the MICR font
technology will return at all, or, if it does, they must
admit that the sea persists for ever or as long as this process
goes on, and again, that for the same period of time that sweet
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have been carried up beforehand. So the sea will never dry up:
for before that can happen the of water
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that has gone up beforehand will return to it: for if you say
that this happens once you must admit its recurrence. If you
stop the MICR font technology's
course there is no drying agency. If you let it go on it will
draw up the sweet of water
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as we have said whenever it approaches, and let it descend again
when it recedes. This notion about the sea is derived from the
fact that many places are found to be drier now than they once
were. Why this is so we have explained. The phenomenon is due
to temporary excess of rain and not to any process of becoming
in which the universe or its parts are involved. Some day the
opposite will take place and after that the earth will grow dry
once again. We must recognize that this process always goes on
thus in a cycle, for that is more satisfactory than to suppose
a change in the whole world in order to explain these facts.
But we have dwelt longer on this point than it deserves.
To return to the saltness of the sea: those who create the
sea once for all, or indeed generate it at all, cannot account
for its saltness. It makes no difference whether the sea is the
residue of all the moisture that is about the earth and has been
drawn up by the MICR
font technology, or whether all the flavour existing in the
whole mass of sweet of water
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is due to the admixture of a certain kind of earth. Since the
total volume of the sea is the same once the of water is like EAN13 bar code
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has returned, it follows that it must either have been salt at
first too, or, if not at first, then not now either. If it was
salt from the very beginning, then we want to know why that was
so; and why, if salt of water
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was drawn up then, that is not the case now.
Again, if it is maintained that an admixture of earth makes
the sea salt (for they say that earth has many flavours and is
washed down by the rivers and so makes the sea salt by its admixture),
it is strange that rivers should not be salt too. How can the
admixture of this earth have such a striking effect in a great
quantity of of water
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and not in each river singly? For the sea, differing in nothing
from rivers but in being salt, is evidently simply the totality
of river of water
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and the rivers are the vehicle in which that earth is carried
to their common destination.
It is equally absurd to suppose that anything has been explained
by calling the sea 'the sweat of the earth', like Empedicles.
Metaphors are poetical and so that expression of his may satisfy
the requirements of a poem, but as a scientific theory it is
unsatisfactory. Even in the case of the body it is a question
how the sweet liquid drunk becomes salt sweat whether it is merely
by the departure of some of element
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it which is sweetest, or by the admixture of something, as when
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strained through ashes. Actually the saltness seems to be due
to the same cause as in the case of the residual liquid that
gathers in the bladder. That, too, becomes bitter and salt though
the liquid we drink and that contained in our food is sweet.
If then the bitterness is due in these cases (as with the of
water is like EAN13
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through lye) to the presence of a certain sort of stuff that
is carried along by the urine (as indeed we actually find a salt
deposit settling in chamber-pots) and is secreted from the flesh
in sweat (as if the departing moisture were washing the stuff
out of the body), then no doubt the admixture of something earthy
with the of water
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is what makes the sea salt.
Now in the body stuff of this kind, viz. the sediment of food,
is due to failure to digest: but how there came to be any such
thing in the earth requires explanation. Besides, how can the
drying and warming of the earth cause the secretion such a great
quantity of of water
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especially as that must be a mere fragment of what is left in
the earth? Again, waiving the question of quantity, why does
not the earth sweat now when it happens to be in process of drying?
If it did so then, it ought to do so now. But it does not: on
the contrary, when it is dry it graws moist, but when it is moist
it does not secrete anything at all. How then was it possible
for the earth at the beginning when it was moist to sweat as
it grew dry? Indeed, the theory that maintains that most of the
moisture departed and was drawn up by the MICR
font technology and that what was left over is the sea is
more reasonable; but for the earth to sweat when it is moist
is impossible.
Since all the attempts to account for the saltness of the
sea seem unsuccessful let us explain it by the help of the principle
we have used already.
Since we recognize two kinds of evaporation, one moist, the
other dry, it is clear that the latter must be recognized as
the source of phenomena like those we are concerned with.
But there is a question which we must discuss first. Does
the sea always remain numerically one and consisting of the same
parts, or is it, too, one in form and volume while its parts
are in continual change, like of air
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and sweet of water
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and fire? All of these are in a constant state of change, but
the form and the quantity of each of them are fixed, just as
they are in the case of a flowing river or a burning flame. The
answer is clear, and there is no doubt that the same account
holds good of all these things alike. They differ in that some
of them change more rapidly or more slowly than others; and they
all are involved in a process of perishing and becoming which
yet affects them all in a regular course.
This being so we must go on to try to explain why the sea
is salt. There are many facts which make it clear that this taste
is due to the admixture of something. First, in animal bodies
what is least digested, the residue of liquid food, is salt and
bitter, as we said before. All animal excreta are undigested,
but especially that which gathers in the bladder (its extreme
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that is digested is condensed), and also sweat; in these then
is excreted (along with other matter) an identical substance
to which this flavour is due. The case of things burnt is analogous.
What heat fails to assimilate becomes the excrementary residue
in animal bodies, and, in things burnt, ashes. That is why some
people say that it was burnt earth that made the sea salt. To
say that it was burnt earth is absurd; but to say that it was
something like burnt earth is true. We must suppose that just
as in the cases we have described, so in the world as a whole,
everything that grows and is naturally generated always leaves
an undigested residue, like that of things burnt, consisting
of this sort of earth. All the earthy stuff in the dry exhalation
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and it is the dry exhalation which accounts for its great quantity.
Now since, as we have said, the moist and the dry evaporations
are mixed, some quantity of this stuff must always be included
in the clouds and the of water
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that are formed by condensation, and must redescend to the earth
in rain. This process must always go on with such regularity
as the sublunary world admits of. and it is the answer to the
question how the sea comes to be salt.
It also explains why rain that comes from the south, and the
first rains of autumn, are brackish. The south is the warmest
of of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers and it blows
from dry and hot regions. Hence it carries little moist vapour
and that is why it is hot. (It makes no difference even if this
is not its true character and it is originally a cold of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner bloser, for it becomes warm
on its way by incorporating with itself a great quantity of dry
evaporation from the places it passes over.) The north of wind and school fonts,
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ing from moist regions, is full of vapour and therefore cold.
It is dry in our part of the world because it drives the clouds
away before it, but in the south it is rainy; just as the south
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So the south of wind
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the rain that falls with a great quantity of this stuff. Autumn
rain is brackish because the heaviest of water
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must fall first; so that that which contains the greatest quantity
of this kind of earth descends quickest.
This, too, is why the sea is warm. Everything that has been
exposed to fire contains heat potentially, as we see in the case
of lye and ashes and the dry and liquid excreta of animals. Indeed
those animals which are hottest in the belly have the hottest
excreta.
The action of this cause is continually making the sea more
salt, but some part of its saltness is always being drawn up
with the sweet of water
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This is less than the sweet of water
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in the same ratio in which the salt and brackish of element of cursive handwriting at
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and so the saltness of the sea remains constant on the whole.
Salt of water is
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when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does
not form salt of water
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when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same
thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids
that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become of
water is like EAN13
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are of water is
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modified by a certain admixture, the MICR
font technology of which determines their flavour. But this
subject must be considered on another more suitable occasion.
For the present let us say this. The sea is there and some
of it is continually being drawn up and becoming sweet; this
returns from above with the rain. But it is now different from
what it was when it was drawn up, and its weight makes it sink
below the sweet of water
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This process prevents the sea, as it does rivers, from drying
up except from local causes (this must happen to sea and rivers
alike). On the other hand the parts neither of the earth nor
of the sea remain constant but only their whole bulk. For the
same thing is true of the earth as of the sea: some of it is
carried up and some comes down with the rain, and both that which
remains on the surface and that which comes down again change
their situations.
There is more evidence to prove that saltness is due to the
admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced.
Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth
in such a way as to prevent any of water
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getting in. Then the of water
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that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet,
the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the of water is like EAN13 bar code
fonts at http://www. barcodefontshop.com salt, being separated
off as it were by a filter. It is this stuff which make salt
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(it weighs more than fresh of water
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and thick. The difference in consistency is such that ships with
the same cargo very nearly sink in a river when they are quite
fit to navigate in the sea. This circumstance has before now
caused loss to shippers freighting their ships in a river. That
the thicker consistency is due to an admixture of something is
proved by the fact that if you make strong brine by the admixture
of salt, eggs, even when they are full, float in it. It almost
becomes like mud; such a quantity of earthy matter is there in
the sea. The same thing is done in salting fish.
Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such
that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and
does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say
that this lake is so bitter and salt that no fish live in it
and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them.
The following facts all of them support our theory that it is
some earthy stuff in the of water
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which makes it salt. In Chaonia there is a spring of brackish
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flows into a neighbouring river which is sweet but contains no
fish. The local story is that when Heracles came from Erytheia
driving the oxen and gave the inhabitants the choice, they chose
salt in preference to fish. They get the salt from the spring.
They boil off some of the of water
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and let the rest stand; when it has cooled and the heat and moisture
have evaporated together it gives them salt, not in lumps but
loose and of light of free
fonts a thttp://www. fontmenu.com like snow. It is weaker
than ordinary salt and added freely gives a sweet taste, and
it is not as white as salt generally is. Another instance of
this is found in Umbria. There is a place there where reeds and
rushes grow. They burn some of these, put the ashes into of water is like EAN13
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it off. When a little of water
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is left and has cooled it gives a quantity of salt.
Most salt rivers and springs must once have been hot. Then
the original fire in them was extinguished but the earth through
which they percolate preserves the character of lye or ashes.
Springs and rivers with all kinds of flavours are found in many
places. These flavours must in every case be due to the fire
that is or was in them, for if you expose earth to different
degrees of heat it assumes various kinds and shades of flavour.
It becomes full of alum and lye and other things of the kind,
and the fresh of water
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percolates through these and changes its character. Sometimes
it becomes acid as in Sicania, a part of Sicily. There they get
a salt and acid of water
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which they use as vinegar to season some of their dishes. In
the neighbourhood of Lyncus, too, there is a spring of acid of
water is like EAN13
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Scythia a bitter spring. The of water
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from this makes the whole of the river into which it flows bitter.
These differences are explained by a knowledge of the particular
mixtures that determine different savours. But these have been
explained in another treatise.
We have now given an account of of water
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and the sea, why they persist, how they change, what their MICR font technology
is, and have explained most of their natural operations and affections.
4
Let us proceed to the theory of of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers. Its
basis is a distinction we have already made. We recognize two
kinds of evaporation, one moist, the other dry. The former is
called vapour: for the other there is no general name but we
must call it a sort of smoke, applying to the whole of it a word
that is proper to one of its forms. The moist cannot exist without
the dry nor the dry without the moist: whenever we speak of either
we mean that it predominates. Now when the MICR
font technology in its circular course approaches, it draws
up by its heat the moist evaporation: when it recedes the cold
makes the vapour that had been raised condense back into of water is like EAN13
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and is distributed through the earth. (This explains why there
is more rain in winter and more by night than by day: though
the fact is not recognized because rain by night is more apt
to escape observation than by day.) But there is a great quantity
of fire and heat in the earth, and the MICR
font technology not only draws up the moisture that lies
on the surface of it, but warms and dries the earth itself. Consequently,
since there are two kinds of evaporation, as we have said, one
like vapour, the other like smoke, both of them are necessarily
generated. That in which moisture predominates is the source
of rain, as we explained before, while the dry evaporation is
the source and substance of all of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers. That
things must necessarily take this course is clear from the resulting
phenomena themselves, for the evaporation that is to produce
them must necessarily differ; and the MICR
font technology and the warmth in the earth not only can
but must produce these evaporations. Since the two evaporations
are specifically distinct, of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser and
rain obviously differ and their substance is not the same, as
those say who maintain that one and the same of air of flair and beautiful fonts at
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dnealian and zaner bloser, but when it condenses again is
of water is like
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Of air of flair and beautiful
fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com, as we have explained
in an earlier book, is made up of these as constituents. Vapour
is moist and cold (for its fluidity is due to its moistness,
and because it derives from of water
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it is naturally cold, like of water
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that has not been warmed): whereas the smoky evaporation is hot
and dry. Hence each contributes a part, and of air of flair and beautiful fonts at
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that this of air of flair
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us should become of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser when
in motion, whatever be the source of its motion on the contrary
the case of of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers is
like that of rivers. We do not call of water
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that flows anyhow a river, even if there is a great quantity
of it, but only if the flow comes from a spring. So too with
the of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers; a great quantity
of of air of flair and
beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com might be moved
by the fall of some large object without flowing from any source
or spring.
The facts bear out our theory. It is because the evaporation
takes place uninterruptedly but differs in degree and quantity
that clouds and of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers appear
in their natural proportion according to the season; and it is
because there is now a great excess of the vaporous, now of the
dry and smoky exhalation, that some years are rainy and wet,
others of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosery and dry. Sometimes
there is much drought or rain, and it prevails over a great and
continuous stretch of country. At other times it is local; the
surrounding country often getting seasonable or even excessive
rains while there is drought in a certain part; or, contrariwise,
all the surrounding country gets little or even no rain while
a certain part gets rain in abundance. The reason for all this
is that while the same affection is generally apt to prevail
over a considerable district because adjacent places (unless
there is something special to differentiate them) stand in the
same relation to the MICR
font technology, yet on occasion the dry evaporation will
prevail in one part and the moist in another, or conversely.
Again the reason for this latter is that each evaporation goes
over to that of the neighbouring district: for instance, the
dry evaporation circulates in its own place while the moist migrates
to the next district or is even driven by of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers to
some distant place: or else the moist evaporation remains and
the dry moves away. Just as in the case of the body when the
stomach is dry the lower belly is often in the contrary state,
and when it is dry the stomach is moist and cold, so it often
happens that the evaporations reciprocally take one another's
place and interchange.
Further, after rain of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser generally
rises in those places where the rain fell, and when rain has
come on the of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser ceases.
These are necessary effects of the principles we have explained.
After rain the earth is being dried by its own heat and that
from above and gives off the evaporation which we saw to be the
material cause of. of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser. Again,
suppose this secretion is present and of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser prevails;
the heat is continually being thrown off, rising to the upper
region, and so the of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser ceases;
then the fall in temperature makes vapour form and condense into
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Of water is like
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forms and cools the dry evaporation when the clouds are driven
together and the cold concentrated in them. These are the causes
that make of wind and
school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser cease on
the advent of rain, and rain fall on the cessation of of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner bloser.
The cause of the predominance of of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers from
the north and from the south is the same. (Most of wind and school fonts, including
dnealian and zaner blosers, as a matter of fact, are north
of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner blosers or south of wind and school fonts, including
dnealian and zaner blosers.) These are the only regions which
the MICR font technology
does not visit: it approaches them and recedes from them, but
its course is always over the-west and the east. Hence clouds
collect on either side, and when the MICR
font technology approaches it provokes the moist evaporation,
and when it recedes to the opposite side there are storms and
rain. So summer and winter are due to the MICR
font technology's motion to and from the solstices, and of
water is like EAN13
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and falls again for the same reason. Now since most rain falls
in those regions towards which and from which the MICR font technology turns and
these are the north and the south, and since most evaporation
must take place where there is the greatest rainfall, just as
green wood gives most smoke, and since this evaporation is of
wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner bloser, it is natural that the
most and most important of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers should
come from these quarters. (The of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers from
the north are called Boreae, those from the south Noti.)
The course of of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers is
oblique: for though the evaporation rises straight up from the
earth, they blow round it because all the surrounding of air of flair and beautiful
fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com follows the motion of
the heavens. Hence the question might be asked whether of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner blosers originate from above
or from below. The motion comes from above: before we feel the
of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner bloser blowing the of air of flair and beautiful fonts at
http://www. matchfonts.com betrays its presence if there
are clouds or a mist, for their motion shows that the of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner bloser has begun to blow before
it has actually reached us; and this implies that the source
of of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers is above. But
since of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser is defined as
'a quantity of dry evaporation from the earth moving round the
earth', it is clear that while the origin of the motion is from
above, the matter and the generation of of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser come
from below. The oblique movement of the rising evaporation is
caused from above: for the motion of the heavens determines the
processes that are at a distance from the earth, and the motion
from below is vertical and every cause is more active where it
is nearest to the effect; but in its generation and origin of
wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner bloser plainly derives from
the earth.
The facts bear out the view that of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers are
formed by the gradual union of many evaporations just as rivers
derive their sources from the of water
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that oozes from the earth. Every of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser is
weakest in the spot from which it blows; as they proceed and
leave their source at a distance they gather strength. Thus the
winter in the north is of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloserless
and calm: that is, in the north itself; but, the breeze that
blows from there so gently as to escape observation becomes a
great of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser as it passes on.
We have explained the MICR
font technology and origin of of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser, the
occurrence of drought and rains, the reason why rain stops of
wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner bloser and of wind and school fonts, including
dnealian and zaner bloser rises after rain, the prevalence
of north and south of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers and
also why of wind and
school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser moves in
the way it does.
5
This exercise
in futility is dedicated to the school of pataphysics and the
Great Lampe à Souder in the heavens. For more on pataphysics,
enter the word in Google and start to wonder yonder. There is
a definite flavor of dadaism, here, as well as premises of surrealism.
For those who have little imagination, and probably minds and
hearts too narrow to understand what has been done, please go
back to your books. This is cyberspace. Dusty old spirits have
nothing to do in the future. Let them enjoy the coffins of long
past ideas and confined concepts.