from the one, require some space before it can be dispelled by the other, so that the heate spending a great while before it can have the victory, hath not afterwards much time to rage in. Wherfore notwithstanding this, yet that place may remaine habitable. And this was the opinion of the Cardinal de cusa, when speaking of this Planet, he saies,[1] Hic locus Mundi est habitatio hominum & animalium atque vegetabilium. "This part of the world is inhabited by men and beasts, and Plantes. To him assented Campanella, but hee cannot determine whether there were men, or rather some other kinde of creatures. If they were men, then he thinkes they could not be infected with Adams sinne; yet, perhaps, they had some of their owne, which might make them liable to the same misery with us, out of which, perhaps, they were de-
- ↑ De. doct. ign. l. 2. c. 12.
