{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_flwp_flwp04_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_flwp_flwp04_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_flwp_flwp04_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/flwp/flwp04.htm","summary":"IN answer to the objection of Aristotle, that if the elements are generated by a dissolution into planes, it is absurd to suppose that all things are not generated from each other,\u2014Proclus observes, \"that we must assert the very contrary. For the ph\u00e6nomena do not accord with those who transmute earth, and move things immovable. For we never see earth changed into other things; but terrestrial natures are changed, so far as they are full of air or water.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Extracts from the commentary of Simplicius on Aristotle","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":4857}