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Early in the spring, when the storks were again about to journey

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Ath. I will. For, O my good friends, that other doctrine about thewandering of the sun and the moon and the other stars is not thetruth, but the very reverse of the truth. Each of them moves in thesame path-not in many paths, but in one only, which is circular, andthe varieties are only apparent. Nor are we right in supposing thatthe swiftest of them is the slowest, nor conversely, that theslowest is the quickest. And if what I say is true, only justimagine that we had a similar notion about horses running atOlympia, or about men who ran in the long course, and that weaddressed the swiftest as the slowest and the slowest as the swiftest,and sang the praises of the vanquished as though he were thevictor,-in that case our praises would not be true, nor very agreeableto the runners, though they be but men; and now, to commit the sameerror about the Gods which would have been ludicrous and erroneousin the case of men-is not that ludicrous and erroneous? �

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CHAPTER VI

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