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Boethius and James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)
'"In body like to a sphere on all sides perfectly rounded,"
it rolls the restless orb of the universe, keeping itself motionless the while. And if I have also employed reasonings not drawn from without, but lying within the compass of our subject, there is no cause for thee to marvel, since thou hast learnt on Plato's authority that words ought to be akin to the matter of which they treat.'