Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              Animalia
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              omnia natu­
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              ra armauit
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              aduerſus ſex
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              incommodo­
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              rum genera,</s>
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              Cur homo
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              ſolus penè
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              inter anima­
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              lia terre­
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              ſtria nocte
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              non videat.</s>
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              LIBER VNDECIMVS.
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              De Hominis neceſſitate & forma.
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              Cur homo ſit
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              creatus.</s>
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              <s id="s.008976">PROPTER quid igitur cuncta
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              creata ſunt, & an omnia ſo­
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              lius hominis cauſa, & an
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              homo animal, prius definien­
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              dum erit. </s>
              <s id="s.008977">Hoc igitur initium
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              diſputationis efficere oportet, vtrumve ho­
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              mo animal ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.008978">Deinde, an animalia ipſa ge­
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              nere ſolo naturę cognita ſint an partes etiam
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              an etiam ipſa ſingularia, quod
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              in homi­
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              ne maiorem habet dubitationem. </s>
              <s id="s.008979">Rurſus, an
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              animalia ipſa, & plantæ cæteráque propter
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              ſe, an propter hominem: quod ſi propter
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              hominem, an ipſa illicò propter hominem,
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              an quodam ordine hæc propter alia: vt her­
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              bæ (gratia exempli) ob lepores, at lepores ob
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              vulpes, vulpes autem ob hominis commo­
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              dum. </s>
              <s id="s.008980">Neque verò hac diſputatione vnquam
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              olim pulchrior, aut difficilior inuenta eſt.
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              <s id="s.008981">Dubitatio enim maxima eſt, cur non plura
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              genera animalium his ſunt, ſi natura quid­
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              quid efficere poterat, implere conata eſt? </s>
              <s id="s.008982">aut
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              cur his planè ſolis fuit contenta? </s>
              <s id="s.008983">Solétque
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              multis modis huic occurri dubitationi. </s>
              <s id="s.008984">Pul­
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              chréque mehercle Epicurus, dicens, natu­
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              ram feciſſe quæ potuit, ſed manſiſſe tan­
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              tum quæ vim aliquam excellentem habue­
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              runt, qua ſe tuerentur. </s>
              <s id="s.008985">Sic enim inquit.
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              ——Multáque cùm tellus portenta creare
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              Conata eſt mira facie, membriſque coorta,
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              Androgynum inter vtras.
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              <s id="s.008986">Inde ſubiicit etiam:
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              Nam quæcumque vides veſci vitalibus auris,
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              Aut dolus, aut virtus, aut denique mobilitas eſt,
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              Ex ineunte æuo genus id tutata reſeruans,
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              Multaque ſunt nobis ex vtilitate ſua, quæ
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              Commendata manent, tutelæ tradita noſtræ.
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              <s id="s.008987">Inde paulò pòſt:
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              At quis nil horum tribuit natura, nec ipſa
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              Sponte ſua poſſent vt viuere,
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              Hæc ipſa iacebant.
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              <s id="s.008988">Demum ſubiicit:
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              Indupedita ſuis fatalibus omnia vinclis,
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              Donec ad interitum genus id natura redegit.
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              <s id="s.008989">Conſequitur non leue commodum ex hac
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              Epicurus opinione: ſcilicet vt monſtrifera­
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              rum formarum cauſam referre poſſit: nam
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              natura ſæpiùs inchoat animalium ſpecies,
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              quæ cùm ſeruari non poſſint, pro monſtris
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              habentur. </s>
              <s id="s.008990">Sed tamen duobus modis ipſe
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              peccat: primò, quia adhuc manet dubita­
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              tio, cùm aliæ animalium formæ creari po­
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              tuiſſent, quæ manſiſſent, velut lupi cum
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              cornibus, & canes vnguibus acutis. </s>
              <s id="s.008991">Deinde
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              quia naturam (pronephas
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              )
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              vult caſu omnia
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              condidiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.008992">Ergo duorum alterum neceſſa­
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              rium mihi videtur, vel quod formæ viuen­
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              tium numero quorundam, & viribus ſiderum
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              conſtituantur, vel quòd perpetuò varientur
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              temporum ſucceſſu. </s>
              <s id="s.008993">Indicio eſt diuerſitas il­
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              lorum in regionibus, aliis atque aliis, vt ſu­
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              prà demonſtratum eſt, necnon in tempori­
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              bus. </s>
              <s id="s.008994">Has non omnes, ſingularium contem­
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              platione habita, propter hominem, aut pro­
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              pter alia animantia facta eſſe conſtat, cum
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              multæ talpæ ſibi viuant, & moriantur. </s>
              <s id="s.008995">Ne­
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              que maioris partis, ſed ſolius ſpeciei, ſi mo­
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              do propter alia facta videantur. </s>
              <s id="s.008996">Ergo ſpe­
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              cies rerum ipſæ, aut propter ſe factæ ſunt,
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              aut propter hominem. </s>
              <s id="s.008997">Tot autem genera
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              ſerpentum quæ homini exitio ſunt, propter
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              hominem facta dicere, inſanientis prorſus
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              eſt, tum venena mortifera. </s>
              <s id="s.008998">Quid igitur? </s>
              <s id="s.008999">plu­
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              res fuêre artifices, & vnuſquiſque commo­
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              do proſpexit ſui opificij. </s>
              <s id="s.009000">Qui igitur homini
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              proſpexit, ita fabricauit, vt eſſet ſapientiſſi­
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              mus, omnibuſque aliis commodè vti poſſet,
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              aut ſaltem vitare, quæ vſui eſſe non pote­
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              rant. </s>
              <s id="s.009001">Sic qui aquilis ſapientior fuit quàm
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              qui cuculis, & tamen vnuſquiſque cauit per­
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              petuitati ſtructuræ ſuæ. </s>
              <s id="s.009002">Cùm igitur homi­
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              nem creaſſet, ſic vt incommodè vteretur
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              omnibus, factum videtur vt omnia creata
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              propter ipſum viderentur. </s>
              <s id="s.009003">Sed non eſt ſic,
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              vnumquodque enim propter ſe creatum eſt,
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              nec conturnix ob accipitrem minus, quàm
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              animalia propter hominem facta ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.009004">Vi­
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              dentur igitur quæ deteriore conditione ge­
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              nita ſunt, ſed falsò, facta meliorum cauſa. </s>
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              <s id="s.009005">Itaque & ex hoc alterius dubitationis ſo­
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              lutio exurgit, cur animalium quædam infeli­
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              cia ſunt, ac videntur, vt lepores, ranæ, damæ.
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              <s id="s.009006">Vnde ille dicebat.
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              Imbelles damæ, quid niſi præda ſumus?
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              <s id="s.009007">Satis eſſent felices propria natura, ſed ob­
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              ſtat aliorum illis opificum ſapientia: igitur
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              nota fuêre omnia, ſed ſecundum ſpecies. </s>
              <s id="s.009008">Ve­
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              rum de ſingularibus egregiis in humana ſpe­
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              cie tantum, dubitatio non lauis eſt: dico au­
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              tem egregia ſingularia,
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              vis in multos
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              dominatur, vt reges maximè ac ſapientes.
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              <s id="s.009009">Itaque ſuprema videtur mihi fuiſſe tanti
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              opificis ſapientia in duobus: vt nihil inutile
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              relinqueretur in tanta mole, ſed omnia, vel
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              viuerent, vel eſſent alimenta viuentium: &
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              vt ex hac tam ſordida fæce, aliquid quod
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              cunctis his inferioribus dominaretur, ſimilé­
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              que eſſet ſupremis illis ſubſtantiis ſeparatis,
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              effingeret. </s>
              <s id="s.009010">Apparebat autem neceſſariam fo­
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              re illi rerum omnium cognitionem: quam­
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              obrem ſenſus, memoriæ ac prudentiæ tan­
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              tum impertiuit, quantum licebat in tam ru­
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              di materia collocare. </s>
              <s id="s.009011">Cumque ſuperi morta­
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              libus in quinque præſtarent, ſapientia, feli­
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              citate, probitate, vitæque longitudine ac ſe­
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              curitatem autem mortali tribuêre nequibat, </s>
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