With these principles in place and having secured them alongside the fundamental truths of faith that have always been central to my beliefs, I concluded that I was now free to start discarding the remaining opinions I held.
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Located 12 kilometers southwest of the ancient site of Ur, Eridu was the southernmost of a conglomeration of Sumerian cities that grew around temples, almost in sight of one another.
Having thus provided myself with these maxims, and having placed them in reserve along with the truths of Faith, which have ever occupied the first place in my belief, I came to the conclusion that I might with freedom set about ridding myself of what remained of my opinions.