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The Shadow of the Cathedral

CHAPTER VII
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But, really, do you think it moves ?" "Because in your littleness as human beings, because to our microscopic mole-like sight the immense mechanism of the world is lost, do not for a moment doubt it.

The earth turns.

Without moving from where you are, in twenty-four hours you will have made the complete circuit with the globe.

Without moving our feet we rush along at the rate of four hundred leagues an hour, a velocity that the fastest trains cannot attain.

You are astonished?
We rush along without knowing it.


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