What Did We Used to Think About the Solar System

As Locke put it in the Second Treatise, God gave the earth ‘to the use of the Industrious and Rational’, with labour as their means to earn title to it; yet the opposite of ‘the Industrious and the Rational’ in this passage were not the ‘idle’ and the ‘irrational’ but rather ‘the Quarrelsom and Contentious’: that is, anyone ... ................
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