M. Aur. Med. 10.26

Meditations 10.26

Author
Marcus Aurelius
Translator
George Long

Meditations

10.26

Marcus Aurelius

translated by George Long

26A man deposits seed in a womb and goes away, and then another cause takes it, and labors on it and makes a child. What a thing from such a material! Again, the child passes food down through the throat, and then another cause takes it and makes perception and motion, and in fine life and strength and other things; how many and how strange! Observe then the things which are produced in such a hidden way, and see the power just as we see the power which carries things downwards and upwards, not with the eyes, but still no less plainly.