Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Aristotle cannot agree with the followers of Pythagoras, who take the earth to be itself one of the stars, circling around a fire at the center of things and creating night and day by its own turning on its axis.

B. Beneath the moon, in the middle of the whole universe, farthest removed from the high, first heaven, is our motionless, round and solid earth.

C. Plato, Aristotle adds, rightly put the earth in the center, though wrongly he had it rolling on an axis.

D. Their reasoning, he declares, is not from facts to theory but a forcing of the facts to fit their preconceived theory.

E. Because the center must be the most precious spot in the universe, therefore, they say, fire must be there to guard it.