Physical Science in the Time of Nero: Naturales Quaestiones (1910) - Page 26

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XXVI.	Reasons for the apparent movements of comets. Their transparency and shape are accounted for.	299
XXVII.	Parallels to the differences between comets and other planets.	300
XXVIII.	Comets provide prognostications, but not of immediate events or weather.	302
XXIX.	Denial of the supposed heaviness and slowness of comets.	303
XXX.	Humility is as becoming in investigators of the nature of the heavens as it is in worshippers. God has revealed but a little of Himself to man.	304
XXXI.	One cannot be surprised that everything has not yet been discovered. We must leave something to succeeding generations. We are not yet fully proficient in vice, though we have striven so long and hard. Strange to say, we still retain some traces of humanity.	305
XXXII.	We are all given over to low pleasures and vices, and we devote our strength to them. Philosophy is reserved for rainy days. The old teachers have no successors. In fact, we are letting go of what they discovered. At best, we play with truth, which, as of old, lies at the bottom of a well and requires the best efforts of young and old, day and night, to bring it to light.	307

NOTES BY SIR A. GEIKIE	309
TRANSLATOR'S NOTES ON "AIR," QUOTATIONS, AND GERCKE'S READINGS	344
INDEX	351