Nothing Physical Which Sense-experience Sets Before Our

When The Moon Is Ninety Degrees Away From The Sun It Sees But Half The Earth Illuminated (the Western Half). For The Other (the Eastern Half) Is Enveloped In Night. Hence The Moon Itself Is Illuminated Less Brightly From The Earth, And As A Result Its Secondary Light Appears Fainter To Us.

For My Part I Consider The Earth Very Noble And Admirable Precisely Because Of The Diverse Alterations, Changes, Generations, Etc. That Occur In It Incessantly.

Their Vain Presumption Of Knowing All Can Take Beginning Solely From Their Never Having Known Anything; For If One Has But Once Experienced The Perfect Knowledge Of One Thing, And Truly Tasted What It Is To Know, He Shall Perceive That Of Infinite Other Conclusions He Understands Not So Much As One.

I Would Say Here Something That Was Heard From An Ecclesiastic Of The Most Eminent Degree: The Intention Of The Holy Spirit Is To Teach Us How One Goes To Heaven, Not How The Heavens Go.

The Hypothesis Is Pretty; Its Only Fault Is That It Is Neither Demonstrated Nor Demonstrable. Who Does Not See That This Is Purely Arbitrary Fiction That Puts Nothingness As Existing And Proposes Nothing More Than Simple Noncontradiciton?