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| (68) [XXI]. Hec eadem ratio removet ab huiusmodi causalitate omnes orbes planetarum. Et cum primum mobile, scilicet spera nona, sit uniforme per totum et per consequens uniformiter per totum virtuatum, non est ratio quia magis ab ista parte quam ab alia elevasset. | (68) This same line of reasoning rules out all the planetary orbs from such causation, and since the primum mobile, or ninth sphere, is uniform throughout, and therefore uniformly endowed with virtue throughout, there is no reason why it should lift the earth more from this side than from that. |