"Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals."

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The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

— Plutarch