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Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Extracts from the commentary of Simplicius on Aristotle

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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,—Proclus observes, "that we must assert the very contrary. For the phænomena 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.

Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Extracts from the commentary of Simplicius on Aristotle

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