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What stupendous power delusion has!
And was the city's natal day also subject to the
influence of the moon and stars? Assume, if you
will, that it matters in the case of a child under
what arrangement of the heavenly bodies it draws
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its first breath, does it also follow that the stars
could have had any influence over the bricks
and cement of which the city was built? But why
say more against a theory which every day's experience refutes? I recall a multitude of prophecies
which the Chaldeans made to Pompey, to Crassus
and even to Caesar himself (now lately deceased),
to the effect that no one of them would die except
in old age, at home and in great glory. Hence it
would seem very strange to me should anyone,
especially at this time, believe in men whose predictions he sees disproved every day by actual
results.
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