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Outside these rival schools stands the man in the street. No one will take from him his conviction that at our birth are fixed for us the things that shall be. Manili Astronomicon Liber II, ed. H. W. Garrod, Oxford, 1911, p. lxix, and II, ll. 84-86. Pliny: Natural History, Bk. XVIII, Chap. XXV, Sect. 57.
Garrod quotes the following remarkable passage from Tacitus: "My judgment wavers," he says, "I dare not say whether it be fate and necessity immutable which governs the changing course of human affairs or just chance. Among the wisest of the ancients, as well as among their apes, you will find a conflict of opinion.
The late Professor Garrod finds that "from considerations of pterylosis, visceral anatomy, myology, and osteology the screamer cannot be placed along with the Anserine birds."
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