otra vez plinio

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una vez, una gobernadora de tejas dijo que no veía por qué debían enseñar otros idiomas en las escuelas de ese lugar si a jesucristo le había bastado con el inglés.

parece que a plinio el viejo también. por eso cito para ignacio en la noble lengua de shakespeare y de tejas:




188. There is some confusion concerning the spirits of the departed after burial. All men are in the same state from their last day forward as they were before the first day, and neither body nor mind has any more sensation after death than it had before birth. But wishful thinking prolongs itself into the future and falsely invents for itself a life that continues beyond death, sometimes by giving the soul inmortality or a change of shape, sometimes by according feeling to those below*, worshipping spirits and deifying one who has already ceased to even be a man. We do this as if man's method of breathing differs in some way from that of other animals, or as if we could not find many animals that live longer but for which no one prophesies a similar immortality.



*los que están en el mundo inferior, en los infiernos (en sentido positivo)
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