The Metallic Orchard

Since each thing has its own distinct place, seed, and position, and increases and forms itself within its own kind; oh, who then can doubt that GOD should not also have given the minerals and metals their own seed, place, position, and order, as well as His blessing?

Should one or another person perhaps object and say that metals original Latin: Metalla have no seed, nor do they continue to grow, but that GOD made and brought them into being at the very beginning, at the creation of the world.

To this, the answer serves: everything that dies away must grow; metals die away, as sensible miners original German: Berg-Leuthe; literally "mountain people," the traditional term for those who worked the mines and understood the "life" of the earth know and perceive daily; therefore original Latin: Ergo, the minerals and metals must grow. God has shared His blessing with every created thing, so that each should be fruitful and multiply, yet according to its own kind. Should this blessing then have been given only to plants and animals original Latin: Vegetabilibus ac animalibus? This is not to be believed. Whoever [works] in the shafts, places,