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The many theories of the cause of gigantism will not be discussed here, the reader being referred to volumes exclusively devoted to this subject. Celebrated Giants. Mention of some of the most famous giants will be made, together with any associate points of interest. Becanus, physician to Charles V, says that he saw a youth 9 feet high and a man and a woman almost 10 feet.
Possessio autem significat habere et tenere objectum, eo modo, quo natum est haberi et genera. Jam vero, quia Deus non aliter potest a nobis haberi et teneri quam per visionem, ideo fit, ut visio sortiatur nomen et officium possessionis respectu Dei. Becanus, de Beat. quæst. 3. But this is not yet all.
But the pleasure one feels when one thinks to find in the mythologies of the gods some trace of the old history of fabulous times has perhaps carried me too far, and I know not whether I shall have been any more successful than Goropius Becanus, Schrieckius, Herr Rudbeck and the Abbe de la Charmoye.
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