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ers into it, but from nature herself, which, though 

 she does not become greater or less, yet is always 

 younger, and with reference to us, receives a 

 beginning. 



And thus much has been sufficiently said by me 

 respecting the whole and the universe; and further 

 still, concerning the generation and corruption of 

 the natures which are generated in it, and the man- 

 ner in which they subsist, and will for ever sub- 

 sist ; one part of the universe consisting of a nature 

 which is perpetually moved, but another part of a 

 nature which is always passive ; and the former of 

 these always governing, but the latter being al- 

 ways governed. 



CHAP. IV. 



CONCERNING the generation . of men, however, 

 from each other, after what manner, and from what 

 particulars, it may be most properly effected, law, 

 and temperance and piety at the same time co- 

 operating, will be, I think, as follows. In the first 

 place, indeed, this must be admitted, that we 

 should not be connected with women for the sake 

 of pleasure, but for the sake of begetting children. 



