[23] In the original, απογενεσις; but the true reading is doubtless
απωλεια, and Vizzanus has in his version _interitus_. What is here said
by Ocellus is in perfect conformity with the following beautiful lines of
our admirable philosophic poet, Pope, in his Essay on Man:
“All forms that perish other forms supply;
By turns they catch the vital breath and die;
Like bubbles on the sea of matter born,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.”
[24] i. e. The celestial region.
[25] i. e. The sublunary region.