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teor showers, and remarkable conjunctions
of the planets, as well as plagues and famines,
floods and droughts, wars and the deaths of
great rulers. Sometimes they thought they
could trace connections which might lead
them to say that a comet presaged famine,
or an eclipse war.
Even if these men were sometimes led
to evolve laws of cause and effect which
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