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accommodate their acts to the daily and an-
nual alternations of light and darkness and
of heat and cold, as much as to the irregular
changes of weather, attacks of disease, and
the fortune of war. They soon came to re-
gard the influence of the sun, in connection
with light and heat, as a cause. This led to
a search for other signs in the heavens. If
the appearance of a comet was sometimes
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