Utopia by Thomas More Chapter 6 Page 20

the stars, by their oppositions or conjunctions, it has not so much as entered into their thoughts.

They have a particular sagacity, founded upon much observation, in judging of the weather, by which they know when they may look for rain, wind, or other alterations in the air; but as to the philosophy of these things, the cause of the saltness of the sea, of its ebbing and flowing, and of the original and nature both of the heavens and the earth, they dispute of them partly as our ancient philosophers have done, and partly upon some new hypothesis, in which, as they differ from them, so they do not in all things agree among themselves.

“As to moral philosophy, they have the same disputes among them as we have here. They examine what are properly good, both for the body and the