But between the man who says that the peoples of the west marched into the east , because napoleon willed they should do so , and the man who says that that movement came to pass because it was bound to come to pass , there exists the same difference as between the men who maintained that the earth was stationary and the planets revolved about it , and the men who said that they did not know what holds the earth in its place , but they did know that there were laws controlling its motions and the motions of the other planets 然而，一些人说，西方人向东方推进，那是因为拿破仑要这样做，另一些人说，这件事之所以发生是因为它必然要发生，这两种人的说法和另两种人的说法的差别完全一样，一些人说，地球是不转动的，行星都围绕着地球转，另一些人说，他们不知道是什么东西支撑着地球，但是他们知道，地球和其他行星的运动是受某些法则所支配着的。
