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In the latter case we should invoke the hypothesis of germinal capacities, according to which hypothesis God must have deposited in nature energies of a determinate sort = = "Mundus gravidus est causis nascentium" (ibid.) = = the evolution of which at favourable junctures of time would organize the universe.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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:, pater o Lenaee! tuis hic omnia plena aeribus: tibi pampineo gravidus audumno
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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