Editorial January 22, 1903 Issue

A Demonstrable Truth

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1492—and the old world was complacently resting in the established certainty of some things: The earth was flat. What could be more apparent? From the highest promontories, from the masts of the bravest vessels, the same testimony—flat, flat, flat! And what beyond? Imagination answered, peopled the wild waste of waters with monsters terrible, and the intimidated mariner, dismayed at his own fancies, hugged the shore and quieted his ambition for gold and adventure with runes of dangers dire, and dread destruction.

What matter how round the shadow on the moon? What whether mast or hull of the ship appeared first? Man could see, and he that thought to observe and reckon and think contrary to that which the eye sees,—well, pity the folly of that foolish man!

Then came conviction, scientific truth appeared to reason, and the request at the cottage fireside for sailors, and at the palace gate for gold was the clarion call of truth which would not be stifled. The monsters of the deep fled before the prow of discovery, and the winged harbingers of a new continent welcomed the champion of a demonstrable truth.

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