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 1   I,  1 |      instance, to have a hot nature, earth a cold one; the former to
 2   I,  1 |           that it is made of fire or earth, is no more sufficient than
 3   I,  1 |          physiologist, by air and by earth. Of these two answers the
 4   I,  1 |             the perishable things of earth. Yet there are some who,
 5  II,  1 |           call the elements, such as earth, air, water, fire. Perhaps,
 6  II,  1 |          other such part that one is earth, another water, another
 7  II,  2 |            are formed of nothing but earth are solidified by fire.
 8  II,  2 |              they consist chiefly of earth, the process of solidification
 9  II,  3 |   essentially it is fluid. Similarly earth and ashes and the like,
10  II,  3 |              get their food from the earth by means of their roots;
11  II,  3 |            produce no excrement, the earth and its heat serving them
12  II,  3 |          internal substitute for the earth. They must therefore have
13  II,  4 |       coagulate after removal of the earth. But if the fibres are left
14  II,  5 |           and is chiefly composed of earth; and this it is that makes
15  II,  7 |              in it the properties of earth and water. For this reason
16  II,  7 |            vapour steams up from the earth and is carried by the heat
17  II,  7 |           cold air that is above the earth, it condenses again into
18  II,  7 | refrigeration, and falls back to the earth as rain. These, however,
19  II,  7 |           the brain is a compound of earth and water is shown by what
20  II,  7 |            driven off and leaves the earth, which is their main constituent,
21  II,  9 |             For there is always more earth in the composition of these
22  II,  17|            not in the air but on the earth, their tongue in most cases
23 III,  5 |              said, every compound of earth and water-and both nutriment