MARKAB (Alpha Pegasi). Markab epitomizes what seems almost to be a celestial joke, a comic opera of sorts in which stars scramble their names and appear as different characters on the sky’s stage.
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And if I write in French, which is the language of my country, in preference to Latin, which is that of my preceptors, it is because I expect that those who make use of their unprejudiced natural Reason will be better judges of my opinions than those who give heed to the writings of the ancients only; and as for those who unite good sense with habits of study, whom alone I desire for judges, they will not, I feel assured, be so partial to Latin as to refuse to listen to my reasonings merely because I expound them in the vulgar Tongue.