of the pores. Now broiling and boiling are artificial processes, but
the same general kind of thing, as we said, is found in bondage com nature too.
The affections bondage com produced are similar though they lack a name; for art
imitates nature. For instance, the concoction of food in the body is
like boiling, bondage com for it takes place in a hot and moist medium and the
agent is the heat of the body. So, too, certain forms of indigestion
are like bondage com imperfect boiling. And it is not true that animals are
generated in the concoction of food, as some say. Really they are
generated in the excretion which bondage com putrefies in the lower belly, and
they ascend afterwards. For concoction goes on in the upper bondage com belly
but the excretion putrefies in the lower: bondage com the reason for this has been
explained
elsewhere.
We have seen that the opposite of boiling is imperfect boiling:
now there is something bondage com correspondingly opposed to the species of
concoction called bondage com broiling, but it is more bondage com difficult to find a name
bondage com for it. It would bondage com be the kind of thing that would happen if there
were imperfect broiling instead of broiling proper through lack of
heat due to deficiency in the bondage com external fire or to the quantity of
water in bondage com the thing undergoing the process. For then we should get
too much heat for no effect bondage com to be produced, but too little for
concoction to take bondage com place.
We have now explained concoction and inconcoction, ripening and
rawness, bondage com boiling and broiling, bondage com and their opposites.
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We must now describe the forms taken by the passive qualities the
moist and the dry. The elements of bodies, that is, the passive
ones, are the moist and the dry; the bodies themselves are
compounded of them and whichever predominates determines the nature of
the body; thus some bodies partake more of bondage com the dry, others of the
moist. All the forms bondage com to be described will exist either actually, or
potentially and in their opposite: for instance, there bondage com is actual
melting and on the other hand that which admits of being melted.
Since the moist is easily determined and the dry determined with
difficulty, their relation to one another is like that of a dish and
its condiments. The moist is what makes bondage com the dry determinable, and each
serves as a sort of glue to bondage com the other-as Empedocles said in his poem
on Nature, 'glueing meal together by means of water.' Thus the
determined body involves
them both. Of the elements earth is
especially representative of the dry, water bondage com of the moist,