“If nature enclose within the bounds of her ordinary progress the beliefs, judgments, and opinions of men, as well as all other things; if they have their revolution, their season, their birth and death, like cabbage plants; if the heavens agitate and rule them at their pleasure, what magisterial and permanent authority do we attribute to them?”
—MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays, Book II Chapter XII, “Apology for Raimond Sebond“
The Cabbage Farm 