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Rh it may be settled either way so far as mere explanation of the celestial motions is concerned,

A chapter which seems to assert the motion should perhaps be expunged; but it may perhaps be problematical; and, not to break up the book, must be amended as below.

'Why should we hesitate to allow the earth's motion,' must be altered into 'I cannot concede the earth's motion.'

We must not say it is absurd to refuse motion to the contained and located, and to give it to the containing and locating; say that neither is more difficult than the other.

Strike out the whole of the chapter from this to the end; it says that the motion of the earth is the most probable hypothesis.

We must not say that nothing prohibits the motion of the earth, only that having assumed it, we may inquire whether our explanations require several motions.