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Show CAUSTIC HUMOR OF GALILEO. Uaatf In DerroMthlnB Argumtnt Made by Urother Sclentitt. In a rpivutly ii,,i,ua binErnphy of Onliho B.nno Bt.irli i are told of tha caustic humor of tlmt hold luvmtlKat-or. luvmtlKat-or. I.oiarlo Knrl, a ar'ti'r un aclcnco, havliiK nii that thu Unbylonlana mod to cook okc by whlrllnit them in a linn, (lalllpo resiled: Tho caune of euch an rlTict la very rrmoto from I that to which It Is attributed and to find tha truo cauao I shall reason thus: "If nti cflrct doos not follow with us which followed with others at another tlmo It is because. In our ax porlments aornvthlnaj Is wantlnu which was the cause of the former success; and If only ona thins; Is wanting to us that ona thins; la the Una cause. Now wa have pkks and sllnirs and etrona; men to whirl them, and yet they will not become cooked; nay. II tncy were hot at first they mora quickly quick-ly become cold; and since nothing Is wanting to us but to be Babylonian It follows that being Itatrylnnlans la tha true causa why tha rugs became cooked and not to the friction of tha air, which la what I wish to prove." |