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            c
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            onſilii ad futura capax, præteritorum memoria infinita præ-
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            ditum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8858" xml:space="preserve">Quod ingens præſtantiæ diſcrimen ſi perpendamus,
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            credemus non ſine ratione, in cæteris quoque planetis, u-
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            num quoddam genus prætuliſſe naturam; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8859" xml:space="preserve">atque eo magis,
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            quod ſi plura forent eadem ingenii ſagacitate, poſſent noce-
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            re ſibi invicem, ac de poſſeſſionibus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8860" xml:space="preserve">imperio inter ſe con-
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            tendere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8861" xml:space="preserve">quod nunc quoque faciunt nimis frequenter, licet
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            unius generis ſint, quæ in Terra hac dominantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8862" xml:space="preserve">Verum
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            hæc utcunque ſe habeant, de iis nunc agamus terrarum iſta-
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            rum animalibus, quæ maximè cæteris ratione antecellunt;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8863" xml:space="preserve">quæramuſque an ſciri poſſit, quibus in rebus ejus uſum im-
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            pendant, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8864" xml:space="preserve">an habeant etiam artes ſcientiaſque ſuas, velut
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            nos in hoc noſtro planeta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8865" xml:space="preserve">Quod quidem, inter ea quæ ad
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            naturam eorum attinent, præcipuè expendi meretur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8866" xml:space="preserve">Sed,
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            quo melius id fiat, paulò altius exordiendum eſt, vitaque
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8867" xml:space="preserve">ſtudia hominum attentius inſpicienda.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8869" xml:space="preserve">Ac videtur quidem quatenus providendis procurandiſque
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            rebus tantum neceſſariis homines intenti ſunt, ut nempe ab
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            aëris injuriis tuti habitent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8870" xml:space="preserve">ut mœnibus incluſi ab inimicis
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            ſibi caveant, ut leges condant ad ſecure ac tranquille viven-
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            dum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8871" xml:space="preserve">ut liberos educent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8872" xml:space="preserve">victum illis, ſibique parent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8873" xml:space="preserve">in
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            his omnibus inquam nihil magnum admodum habere vide-
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            tur rationis noſtræ uſus, cujus cauſa nos brutis animantibus
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            anteferamus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8874" xml:space="preserve">Namque hæc pleraque iſtorum facilius ſimpli-
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            ciuſque efficiunt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8875" xml:space="preserve">aliquibus nihil opus habent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8876" xml:space="preserve">Quin imo
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8877" xml:space="preserve">virtutis, juſtitiæque ſenſus, propter quem paulo ante ex-
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            cellere mentem humanam dicebamus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8878" xml:space="preserve">itemque amicitiæ, gra-
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            titudinis, honeſti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8879" xml:space="preserve">quid aliud efficiunt, niſi ut vel vitiis ho-
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            minum obſiſtatur, vel vita tranquilla & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8880" xml:space="preserve">mutuarum injuria-
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            rum expers præſtetur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8881" xml:space="preserve">quod beſtiis ſponte ac naturæ ductu
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            contigit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8882" xml:space="preserve">Jam ſi curas multiplices, animi ægritudines, con-
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            cupiſcentiam, mortis metum, quæ omnia rationem illam
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            noſtram comitantur, ante oculos ponamus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8883" xml:space="preserve">eaque cum vita
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            parabili, quieta & </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8885" xml:space="preserve">videri
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            poſſint harum plurimæ, ac præſertim ex avium genere, ju-
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            cundius agere, & </s>
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