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“‘Is it not likely, then, that some will fall on the grain?’“‘Yes, it is a long way for the husks to be blown, right over the grain to the empty part of the floor.’“‘But what if you start winnowing against the wind?’“‘Clearly the chaff will at once fall in the right place.’
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1979.
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