The Summary of Physics Restored

62The world's founder wisely made earth's body spongy so that air, rains and celestial influences might enter. Moist vapours, driven by internal heat from the centre to the surface through the earth's passages, could then corrupt the seeds of things by a moderate putrefaction and prepare them for generation. Thus disposed, they receive life-giving celestial heat. For nature has placed magnetic love in the depths of things, by whose power they call forth and draw in the powers of higher things, which strengthen their formation and hasten the sweetness of the vital breath.