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and animals which originate from it; and of the 

 place on high, and the aerial region, to be consub- 

 sistent with all the natures that are generated in it. 

 Since, therefore, in each division of the world, 

 a certain genus of animals is arranged, which sur- 

 passes the rest contained in that division ; in the 

 heavens, indeed, the genus of the gods, but in the 

 earth men, and in the region on high demons ; 

 this being the case, it is necessary that the race of 

 men should be perpetual, since reason truly in- 

 duces us to believe, that not only the [great] parts 

 of the world are cohsubsistent with the world, but 

 also the natures comprehended in these parts. 



Violent corruptions, however, and mutations, 

 take place in the parts of the earth ; at one time, 

 indeed, the sea overflowing into another part of the 

 earth ; but at another, the earth itself becoming 

 dilated and divulsed, through wind or water 

 latently entering into it. But an entire corruption 

 of the arrangement of the whole earth never did 

 happen, nor ever will. 



Hence the assertion, that the Grecian history 

 derived its beginning from the Argive Inachus, 

 must not be admitted as if it commenced from a 

 certain first principle, but that it originated from 

 some mutation which happened in Greece; for 

 Greece has frequently been, and will again be, 

 barbarous, not only from the migration of foreign- 



