One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a GlobeCarpenter, William
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One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
Carpenter, William
Earth (Planet) -- Miscellanea
"Mr. Gilman is a graduate of Yale College, and for several years
before his call to California, was a Professor in that institution,
taking an active part in the organization and development of 'The
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College,' at New Haven. Upon
receiving an invitation to Baltimore, he resigned the office which
he had held in California since 1872, and entered upon the service
of The Johns Hopkins University, May 1, 1875."--Galloway Cheston.
"In the hunt for truth, we are not first hunters, and then men;
we are first and always men, then hunters."--D. C. Gilman, Oct., 1883.
The "One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe" have been
running around within the observation of the master huntsman and his
men for a year or more: now let the hunters prove themselves to be
men; and the men, hunters. It is impossible to be successful hunters
for Truth, if Error be allowed to go scot-free. Nay, it is utterly
impossible for the Johns Hopkins University to answer the purpose
of its founder if its hunters for Truth do not first hunt Error with
their hounds and hold it up to ridicule, and then, and always, keep
a watchful eye for the Truth lest they should injure it by their
hot haste or wound it with their weapons. Prof. Daniel C. Gilman,
we charge you that the duties of your office render it imperative
that, sooner or later, you lead your men into the field against the
hundred proofs, to show the world that they are hunters worthy of the
name--if, in your superior judgment, you decide that there is Error
to be slain--or, show that your hunters are worthy of the better name
of men, by inducing them to follow and sustain you, out of the beaten
track, in your endeavors to uphold God's Truth, if, in your superior
judgment, you tell them, "There is a Truth to be upheld!"
[End of the Appendix to the Fifth Edition. Nov. 9, 1886.]
PROFESSOR PROCTOR'S PROOFS.
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