The Summary of Physics Restored

98Those who establish desire between matter and form, but hatred and opposition within matter itself and the elements, contradict themselves most completely in this positing of contraries. For in all generated beings, the human being alone excepted, form is drawn from the potentiality or hidden power of matter, according to the doctrine of that same Academy. Yet how can this happen except through love? If matter suffers the divisions of contraries at its root, will not form too, emerging from its deep root, feel the same force—indeed, be crushed in its very cradle? What sane person, then, at the very point when the Elements are mingled and matter is formed, would set those gladiators over the marriage of Love and Nature? Who would expect uniform offspring, rather than monstrous offspring, from such heterogeneous seed of resisting parents?