fads and fallacies by martin gardner

Author:martin gardner
Language: spa
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Then down with every "metric" scheme

Taught by the foreign school,

We'll worship still our Father's God!

And keep our Father's "rule"!

A perfect inch, a perfect pint,

The Anglo's honest pound,

Shall hold their place upon the earth,

Till time's last trump shall sound!

The prophetic portions of Smyth's work appealed strongly to Protestant fundamentalists of all denominations—especially in England. One of the most popular early books, Miracle in Stone, 1877, by Joseph Seiss, ran through fourteen editions. A Col. J. Gamier produced a book in 1905 which proved by the Pyramid that Christ would return in 1920. Walter Wynn, in 1926, issued a similar work. Undaunted by the failure of its prophecies, he wrote another book in 1933 containing equally bad predictions. Bertrand Russell, in one of his essays, summed up this literature as follows:

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