WHENCE DOES THE WORLD RECEIVE ITS NUTRIMENT?
Aristotle says that, if the world be nourished, it will likewise be
dissolved; but it requires no aliment, and will therefore be eternal.
Plato, that this very world prepares for itself a nutriment, by the
alteration of those things which are corruptible in it. Philolaus
believes that a destruction happens to the world in two ways; either
by fire falling from heaven, or by the lunary water being poured down
through the whirling of the air; and the exhalations proceeding from
thence are the aliment of the world.