Note a — BOOK V.
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What is here urged about the Size of Man’s Body, may answer one of Lucretius’s Reasons why Nil ex nihilo gignitur. His Argument is
Denique cur Homines ramos natura parare Non potuit, pedibus qui pontum per vada possent Transire, & magnos manibus divellere monteis? Lucret. L. 1. Carm. 200.