FOOTNOTES:
[23] In the original, απογενεσις; but the true reading is doubtless απωλεια, and Vizzanus has in his version interitus. What is here said by Ocellus is in perfect conformity with the following beautiful lines of our admirable philosophic poet, Pope, in his Essay on Man:
“All forms that perish other forms supply;
By turns they catch the vital breath and die;
Like bubbles on the sea of matter born,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.”
[24] i. e. The celestial region.
[25] i. e. The sublunary region.