CHAPTER V.WHENCE DOES THE WORLD RECEIVE ITS NUTRIMENT ?.
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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 affirms that a destruction happens to the world in two ways; either by fire failing from heaven, or by the sublunary water being poured down through the whirling of the air; and the exhalations proceeding from thence are aliment of the world..