Are not these facts? But to believe in the collar bone, in the full line and in the stars, is as ridiculous as to believe with the inhabitants of Grand−Cathay that the golden oriole turns into a mole, and that grains of wheat turn into fish of the carp species."
Mais croire à la clavicule, à la ligne pleine et aux étoiles, c’est aussi ridicule que de croire, avec les habitants du Grand-Cathay, que le loriot se change en taupe et les grains de blé en poisson du genre cyprin !