I [prefer] A Short Life With Width

As To The Mental Essence, We Find It In Infants Devoid Of Every Mental Form.

Those Who Deny The First Principle Should Be Flogged Or Burned Until They Admit That It Is Not The Same Thing To Be Burned And Not Burned, Or Whipped And Not Whipped.

Pure Earth Does Not Petrify, Because The Predominance Of Dryness Over [i.e. In] The Earth Endows It Not With Coherence But Rather With Crumbliness. In General, Stone Is Formed In Two Ways Only (a) Through The Hardening Of Clay, And (b) By The Congelation [of Waters].

Mountains Have Been Formed By One [or Other] Of The Causes Of The Formation Of Stone, Most Probably From Agglutinative Clay Which Slowly Dried And Petrified During Ages Of Which We Have No Record. It Seems Likely That This Habitable World Was In Former Days Uninhabitable And, Indeed, Submerged Beneath The Ocean. Then, Becoming Exposed Little By Little, It Petrified In The Course Of Ages.

I [prefer] A Short Life With Width To A Narrow One With Length.