Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand
the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in
astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and
proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of
nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put
aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by
which their authority is preserved.
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