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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].

The Knowledge Of Anything, Since All Things Have Causes, Is Not Acquired Or Complete Unless It Is Known By Its Causes.

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

It Is In The Nature Of Water ... To Become Transformed Into Earth Through A Predominating Earthy Virtue; ... It Is In The Nature Of Earth To Become Transformed Into Water Through A Predominating Aqueous Virtue.

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.