30. Does it not occur to you
to reflect and to examine in whose domain you live? on whose property
you are? whose is that earth which you till?3292
| 3292 The
Peripatetics called God the locus rerum, τόπος
πάντων, the “locality and
the area of all things;” that is, the being in whom all else was
contained. |
whose is that
air which you inhale,
and return again in
breathing? whose
fountains do you
abundantly enjoy? whose
water? who
has regulated the blasts of the
wind? who has contrived the watery
clouds? who has discriminated the productive powers of
seeds by special
characteristics? Does Apollo give you rain? Does Mercury
send you
water from
heaven? Has Æsculapius, Hercules, or
Diana devised the plan of showers and of
storms? And how can this
be, when you give forth that they were
born on
earth, and that at a
fixed period they received vital perceptions? For if the
world
preceded them in the long lapse of time, and if before they were
born
nature already experienced rains and storms, those who were born later
have no right of rain-giving, nor can they mix themselves up with those
methods which they found to be in operation here, and to be derived
from a greater Author.
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