讀｜Comte de Buffon in 1783

Everything happens,

because with time everything meets,

and in the free range of spaces

and in the continuous succession of movement,

all matter is stirred,

any form given,

all figures printed;

so everything is coming or going,

all is joined or running away,

all is combined or opposed,

everything happens or is destroyed

by relative or contrary forces,

that are the only constants,

and balancing without harm,

they animate the universe

and make it into a theater

with ever new scenes

and objects incessantly reborn.