1824

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Now in these things, a very large part of what we call natural is not; rather it is rather artificial: as if to say, the fields worked, the trees and the other plants educated and arranged in order, the narrow rivers under certain terms and addressed to certain course, and similar things, do not have that state or semblance that they would have naturally. So that the sight of every country inhabited by any generation of civilized men, even considering the cities, and the other places where men are reduced to being together; it is something artificial, and very different from what would be in nature.
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