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            quanta exiſtimetur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8450" xml:space="preserve">Favet eorum ſententiæ, qui omnia alia
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            illic imaginantur, quod Natura videatur varietatem plerum-
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            que, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8451" xml:space="preserve">plurimis in rebus, ſectari; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8452" xml:space="preserve">quodque Conditoris po-
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            tentia hoc ipſo magis declaretur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8453" xml:space="preserve">Sed cogitare debent, non
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            eſſe hominum arbitrio definiendum quàm magna iſta ſit va-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0395-01" xlink:href="note-0395-01a" xml:space="preserve">Non nimian
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              in hiſce ſin-
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              gendam diſ-
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              ſimilitudi-
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            rietas ac diſſimilitudo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8454" xml:space="preserve">Neque, quia poſſit eſſe immenſa,
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            reſque illæ ab intellectu, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8455" xml:space="preserve">comprehenſione noſtra penitus
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            remotæ, idcirco neceſſe eſſe, ut reipſa tales exiſtant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8456" xml:space="preserve">Quam-
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            vis enim ſimilia omnia iis quæ apud nos ſunt, finxiſſet Deus
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            in cæteris Planetis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8457" xml:space="preserve">nihilo minor eſſet ſpectatoribus eorum,
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            ſi qui ſunt, admiratio, quam ſi plurimum diſtarent: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8458" xml:space="preserve">cum,
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            quid in aliis effectum ſit, nullo modo poſſiut cognoſcere.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8459" xml:space="preserve">Potuiſſet in terris Americæ, aliiſque longè remotis, aliqua
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            creaſſe viventia, quæ his noſtris nihil ſimile haberent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8460" xml:space="preserve">neque
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            id fecit tamen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8461" xml:space="preserve">Nam formarum quidem diverſitatem aliquam
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            eſſe voluit, quibus animalia herbæque noſtræ à tranſmarinis
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            illis, diſſiderent, ſed & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8462" xml:space="preserve">in his ipſis formis, inque creſcendi
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8463" xml:space="preserve">generandi modis, multa utriſque convenire fecit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8464" xml:space="preserve">Habent
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            enim & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8465" xml:space="preserve">illic animalia pedes, alas; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8466" xml:space="preserve">atque intus cor, pulmo-
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            nes, inteſtina, vulvas; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8467" xml:space="preserve">cum hæc omnia in unoquoque gene-
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            re illorum, ac noſtratium quoque, planè diverſa ratione or-
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            dinari potuerint, ab infinitæ ſolertiæ opifice. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8468" xml:space="preserve">Non igitur
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            omnem varietatem quam poterat in rebus creatis, earum au-
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            ctor exhibuit, nec proinde argumento illi, quod a Naturæ
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            novandi ſtudio petitur, tantum tribuendum eſt, ut omnem,
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            qui in cæteris Planetis eſt, ornatum ab eo, qui in Terra no-
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            ſtra conſpicitur, prorſus alienum putemus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8469" xml:space="preserve">At contra cre-
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            dibile eſt, inter ea quæ in ſuperficie iſtorum globorum gene-
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            rantur, quæque apud nos ſunt, præcipuam eſſe differentiam,
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            quæ ex majori, minorive, eorum a Sole, caloris vitæque fon-
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            te, diſtantia oriatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8470" xml:space="preserve">Propter quam tamen magis materiam,
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            quam formam rerum, variari neceſſe ſit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8472" xml:space="preserve">Ad materiam vero quod attinet qualiumcunque ſtirpium,
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            atque animantium, quæ Planetas exornant, etſi qualis ſit co-
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            gitatione aſſequi nequeamus, illud tamen vix dubitari poteſt,
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            quin ex elemento humido, uti noſtra omnia, creſcant &</s>
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