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The Path of the King

CHAPTER 6
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The sages Eratosthenes, Hipparchus and Ptolemy amplified the teaching.

It is found in the poetry of Manilius and Seneca, and it was a common thought in the minds of Virgil and Ovid and Pliny.

You will find it in St.Augustine, and St.Isidore and Beda, and in many of the moderns.

I myself have little knowledge of such things, but on the appeal to high authority your doctrine succeeds.' "What a thing is learning!" Battista exclaimed with reverence.

"Here have I and such as I been fumbling in the dark when the great ones of old saw clearly!...


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