barren owing to the water has now become fruitful. Now the same process that has taken place in this small district must be supposed to be going on over whole countries and on a large scale.
Men whose outlook is narrow suppose the cause of such events to be change in the universe, in the sense of a coming to be of the world as a whole. Hence they say that the sea being dried up and is growing less, because this is observed to have happened in more places now than formerly. But this is only partially true. It is true that many places are now dry, that formerly were covered with water. But the opposite is true too: for if they look they will find that there are many places where the sea has invaded the land. But we must not suppose that the cause of this is that the world is in process of becoming. For it is Norwich City Dresy absurd to make the universe to be in process because of small and trifling changes, when the bulk and size of the earth are surely as nothing in comparison with the whole world. Rather we must take the cause of all these changes to be that, AC Milan just as winter occurs in the seasons of the year, so in determined periods there comes a great winter of a great year Jan Rutta Tröjor and with it excess of rain. But this excess does not always occur in the same place. The deluge in the time of Deucalion, for instance, took place chiefly in the Greek world and in it especially about ancient Hellas, the country about Dodona and the Achelous, a river which has often changed Kun Aguero Fotbalové Dres its course. Here the Selli dwelt and those who were formerly called Graeci and now Hellenes. When, therefore, such an excess of Cody McLeod Tröja rain occurs we must suppose that it suffices for a long France Dresy time. We have seen that some say that the size of the subterranean cavities is what makes some rivers perennial and others not, whereas we maintain that the size of the mountains Philipp Grubauer Tröja is the cause, and their density Philadelphia Union Dresy and coldness; for great, dense, and cold mountains catch and keep and create most water: whereas if the mountains that overhang the sources of rivers are small or porous and stony and clayey, these rivers run Independiente Avellaneda Dresy dry earlier. We must recognize the same kind of thing in this case too. Where such abundance of rain falls in the great winter it tends to make Juventus Dresy the moisture of those places almost everlasting. But as time goes on places of the latter type dry up more, while those of the former, moist type, do so less: until at last the beginning of the same cycle returns.
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