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1 2|     it, but belong to it in a degree so slight as to be imperceptible
2 3|   bodies in a greater or less degree. As the bodies in which
3 3| Translucent, according to the degree to which it subsists in
4 4|     an indefinite relation of degree, between their components,
5 5|       are water [to a greater degree than the former, to a less
6 5|    than the former, to a less degree than the latter].~Some writers
7 5|       For these do not in any degree stimulate animals to food,