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ramify throughout the human body, so does the ocean fill the body of the earth with innumerable veins of water. The body of the earth lacks sinews, which do not exist because sinews are made for movement, and the world being in perpetual stability no movement occurs, and there being no movement, sinews are not necessary; but in all other points they resemble each other greatly.

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Water is the driver of nature.

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In explaining the action of water remember to cite experience first and then reason.

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Do not forget that you must put forward propositions adducing the above-mentioned facts as illustrations, not as propositions, — that would be too simple.

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Water in itself has no stability and cannot move of its own accord, save to descend. Water of its own accord does not cease to move unless it is shut in.

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The body of the earth, like the body of animals, is intersected with ramifying veins, which are all

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