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Idemque hoc modo: "Nullius
sensu carentis pars aliqua potest esse sentiens; mundi
autem partes sentientes sunt; non igitur caret sensu
mundus". Pergit idem et urguet angustius: "Nihil" inquit "quod animi quodque rationis est expers, id generare ex se potest animantem compotemque rationis;
mundus autem generat animantis compotesque rationis; animans est igitur mundus composque rationis". Idemque similitudine, ut saepe solet, rationem
conclusit hoc modo: "Si ex oliva modulate canentes
tibiae nascerentur, num dubitares quin inesset in oliva
tibicini quaedam scientia? quid si platani fidiculas ferrent numerose sonantes: idem scilicet censeres in platanis
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inesse musicam. cur igitur mundus non animans
sapiensque iudicetur, cum ex se procreet animantis
atque sapientis?"
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