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— GASSENDI. NOV. 7, 1867.
VI.
METEORS.
WHAT is truth? What is fact, and what is fancy, even with regard to solid visible things that we may see and handle?
Among the many superstitions of the early world and credu- lous fancies of the Middle Ages, was the belief that great stones sometimes fell down out of heaven onto the earth.
Pliny has a story of such a black stone, big enough to load a chariot ; the Mussulman still adores one at Mecca ; and a me- diaeval emperor of Germany had a sword which... was said to have been forged from one of these bolts shot out of the blue.
But with the revival of learning, people came to know better !
That stones should fall down from the sky was clearly, they thought, an absurdity ; indeed, according to the learned opinion of that time, one would hardly ask a better instance of the dif- ference between the realities which science recognized and the absurdities which it condemned than the fancy that such a thing could be. So at least the matter looked to the philosophers of the last century, who treated it much as they might treat certain alleged mental phenomena, for instance, if they were alive to- day, and at first refused to take any notice of these stories, when from time to time they still came to hand.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
— GASSENDI. NOV. 7, 1867.
VI.
METEORS.
WHAT is truth? What is fact, and what is fancy, even with regard to solid visible things that we may see and handle?
Among the many superstitions of the early world and credu- lous fancies of the Middle Ages, was the belief that great stones sometimes fell down out of heaven onto the earth.
Pliny has a story of such a black stone, big enough to load a chariot ; the Mussulman still adores one at Mecca ; and a me- diaeval emperor of Germany had a sword which... was said to have been forged from one of these bolts shot out of the blue.
But with the revival of learning, people came to know better !
That stones should fall down from the sky was clearly, they thought, an absurdity ; indeed, according to the learned opinion of that time, one would hardly ask a better instance of the dif- ference between the realities which science recognized and the absurdities which it condemned than the fancy that such a thing could be. So at least the matter looked to the philosophers of the last century, who treated it much as they might treat certain alleged mental phenomena, for instance, if they were alive to- day, and at first refused to take any notice of these stories, when from time to time they still came to hand.
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