Theater of Machines, Part 3

...has before him, but among other things, the most important thing through which this temporal life is sustained, namely the dear grain which we need for daily food and drink, must be prepared in the mills, and thus by the drive of the water. As there is no doubt that mills are not only very useful and highly necessary in good peace and prosperity, but also in occurring war-needs or famines. For even when the good GOD has richly blessed the dear field crops and granted all barns to be full, yet because of our manifold sins, war or famine, or such dry times, or on the other hand, great floods, and similar scourges of the land are sent, which are felt by everyone, small and great, poor and rich, pious and wicked, juxta illud according to that.