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| (14) Consequentia probabatur per hoc, quod aqua naturaliter fertur deorsum; et cum mare sit principium omnium aquarum ut patet per Phylosophum in Metauris suis, si mare non esset altius quam terra, non moveretur aqua ad ipsam terram, cum in omni motu naturali aque principium oporteat esse altius. | (14) The sequence is proved by the fact that water is naturally borne downwards; and since the sea is the prime source of all waters (as is shown by the Philosopher in his Meteorics), if the sea were not loftier than the land no water would move to the land, since in every natural movement of water the source must needs be the loftier. |