Collected Works of Xenophon

The text describes the process of abiogenesis from primeval slime and water....it tells of being tracked and, warmed by the moisture, mingling. Upon this, it is held and exhaled, and being drawn into itself and counted together, it is established. From the moisture, the sea; from the air, mists and the qualities of the earth are made. And it wipes away every crust. The first part of the air, with the sun shining of fire, the mixture would shine. And upon this, the warmth of them remains in the sea of the earth. We have observed that our own moist nature creates life strongly, and it rises in the air. After this, the paths of the air. The air becomes, thence, the place for the spirits, becoming moist. Upon the earth, which is otherwise frozen, through fire, the air becomes a mixture. And the soft earth, from the gradually vivified moisture through the warmth of the aforementioned manner, caused the closed elements to appear bright, because the substance comes from the air like a mist. The wombs, under the heat, are air-like. Finally, the darkness... covering the surface, and it is bright, and the mixture, having fallen and broken off, darkens in the just as in the molds of animals. Of these, the ones that partook of high heat, rising to heaven, became winged creatures. Those that held onto the earthly mixed together. Upon this, all other progeny are counted in another order. Those that were naturally heavenly, not even needing to run together to their own kin, were named... the generation of both gathered, and under the strong...

the sun of fire and the violence of the spirits, and the following: A large, illuminated letter "L" marks the beginning of this section, depicting Linus, the mythical poet and musician, who is said to have written about the origins of the world. Linus, indeed, in the myths, having learned, from the mixture with each other, and in the mixtures, it seems to be fulfilled concerning the generation of the world. But the accounts of Linus are unsubstantiated regarding the measures, as if the life-sustaining nature, having been mixed, is the substance from their mixture, as heaven and earth are the life of the race. Regarding the spiritual songs of Amphion, "To the Night, the column, all things," and heaven and the remaining parts in the shape of a hunt, as in ambiguity. And the law in correctness, and finding the first generation to be such, through the mingling. From the mixture of the foam of generation, thus they make the generations. They say that here also are mixtures of beasts by themselves. And the births happen sporadically. And the sproutings of the earth from the first beginning, and such vanities from the fruits of the moisture. Being brought together by the beasts with each other, being taught by us of the common benefit, it raises. And as helpers, he teaches to build with NATO or "a place of refuge", knowing the small things in the better types of nature. Because, being mixed, from this, therefore, it proceeds to fill the ends and create pleasures for each other, and symbols of themselves from themselves, and having arrived at the care for all things. Such a synthesis happening after the sea covers the inhabited world, not only all men... from this, all structure of the words. Therefore, even in whom the character exists.