Hi/lone of the Indie*, lib. i, 2? 



tation, by reafon , faying that he cannot ftay there 

 on, and omitte the handling of other matters. 



Thereafon why S. Auguftine denied tht Antipodes. 



C H AP.8. 



THe reafon which moved S. Auznftinc to deny the 

 ^/gg^w^^fhgLthen thatformer 

 being of ahTgher iudgeinent,for the refon 



y alieadged, 

 before men- 



tioned (that the Antipodes fhould go vpwards) is con 

 futed by the fame Dodorinhis bookeof fcrmons in 

 thefe vvords 3 The ancients hold \ that the earth of all parts 

 is beneath, And the heaven above, by reafon whereof the 

 Antipodes, which they fay go ofpofite vntovs, have like 

 vnto vs the heaven above their heads . Seeing then S. 

 Auguftine hath confelled this to bee conformable to 

 good Philofbphie.) what reafon (hall we fay did move 

 fo learned and excellent a man to follow the contrary 

 opinion ? Doubtleffe he drew the motive and caufe 

 from the bowels of divinitie, whereby theholie Writ 

 doth teach vs, tfou all mankjnde doth come from the 

 firft man Adam 7an?to faythat men could pane to that 

 hewworUjtrolIinglhe great Ocean , were vncredible, 

 and a meere lye . And in truth , if the fuccefle an expe 

 rience* of what wehavefeene in thefe ages, had not fatifl 

 fied vs in this point , wehad yet held this reafon to bee 

 good. And^hhpugh -we know this reafon neither to_be 

 pertinent nor true , yet wflTwe makeanfwere there vn- 

 toTffieWifSn what fort, and by what meanes,the firft 

 linage of men might pafte thither , andliovve and by 

 \vhat meanes they came to people and inhabite the 



Indies* 



