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example. There are many living creatures that are devoid of all life in the winter season, but as soon as summer returns, natural heat begets new life, so that the body rises again in that substance in which it previously exerted vital motion, just as an herb which dies in winter revives again in spring. The death of these things is therefore judged to be natural, but the restoration of new life through its own knowledge is supernatural. But truly, because man is accustomed to all these things, he undertakes the smallest part, which are further to be weighed and explored, leaving aside both natural and supernatural things.
Most people are also accustomed to pass over the character of man with a dry foot, which itself is also supernatural, likewise those monsters which bring spots into the world together; all these are indeed natural but display themselves supernaturally from arisen imagination, which supernatural form and character the mother imprinted on the infant by her imagination by accident, as we indeed see more often, that some customs are instilled into certain men, which they can never renounce, however much they struggle to unlearn them. Such an inherent force of man is natural, the conception in the mother's womb, which the imagination of these things provided, is supernatural, and subject to those things which heaven imprinted.
Finally, I do not deny this, that no one can support what exceeds the forces of nature with unshaken foundations and clear causes to avoid injury to truth, unless those things are first known which become known to us from their physical course, as they have drawn their birth and their form from the supernatural;