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For A Traveler Going From Any Place Toward The North, That Pole Of The Daily Rotation Gradually Climbs Higher, While The Opposite Pole Drops Down An Equal Amount.

Not Only The Phenomena Of The Others Followed From This, But Also It So Bound Together Both The Order And Magnitude Of All The Planets And The Spheres And The Heaven Itself, That In No Single Part Could One Thing Be Altered Without Confusion Among The Other Parts And In All The Universe.

We Regard It As A Certainty That The Earth, Enclosed Between Poles, Is Bounded By A Spherical Surface.

Finally We Shall Place The Sun Himself At The Center Of The Universe. All This Is Suggested By The System Of Procession Of Events And The Harmony Of The Whole Universe, If Only We Face The Facts, As They Say, "with Eyes Wide Open."

I Am Aware That A Philosopher's Ideas Are Not Subject To The Judgment Of Ordinary Persons, Because It Is His Endeavour To Seek The Truth In All Things, To The Extent Permitted To Human Reason By God.