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5 8 Physics/B.4/TranalatIon
"it happened16 to run that way at the time,1® but often ran
otherwise." He also said that most of the parts of animals came
to be by chance.1T
And there are some who say that the automatic is the cause
of our heavens and of all the cosmos; for they say the vortex
came to be automatically as did the conditions of motion and
separation in the present arrangement of everything.13 And this
is utterly amazing; for they say that plants and animals neither
are nor come to be by chance, but that the cause is nature or the
intellect or some other such thing (for it is not a chance thing
that comes to be from an individual seed, but an olive tree from
this [particular] sort1® [of seed], and a man from that
[particular] sort). But they also say that the heavens and the
most divine of visible things came to be by the automatic, which
cause is not in any way like the causes of animals and plants.20
And yet if this is so, it deserves attention, and something might
well have been said about it. For, besides the statement's being
absurd in other ways, it is still more absurd for people to speak
thus when they observe nothing coming to be automatically in the
heavens, but many things happening by chance among the things
which [according to them] are not by chance, although, in all
probability, the opposite should have come to be.21
And there are others who seem to think that chance is a
cause, but that it is inscrutable to human thought,22 as being
something divine23 and rather godlike.24
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Davis, Mike Lee. Problems and Possibilities in the Translation of the Classics, thesis or dissertation, Autumn 1990; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146413/m1/64/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Honors College.