10. Their Generation, and Conservation of their Species by that Means.

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Principio cœlum, ac terras, camposque liquentes,

Lucentemque globum Lunæ, Titaniaque astra

Spiritus intùs alit, totamque infusa per artus

Mens agitat molem, & magno se corpore miscet.

Inde hominem, pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum,

Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.

Igneus est illis vigor, & cœlestis origo