It is not therefore without reaſon, that the Aſiatics, who live in regions where ſerpents greatly abound, wear boots and long cloaths, which very well protect their lower parts from the accidental reſentment of their reptile annoyers.

Nonetheless, it would be wonderful if, in the face of inevitable fate, all people could live youthfully and vitally until the end.

That phytogeography of today is a “confused hodgepodge of theory and half-baked notions”…is yet another example of Croizat’s apodictisms.

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