The Earth’s Concavity by Madison Warder
Ottumwa Tri-Weekly Courier April 26, 1910 THE EARTH’S CONCAVITY by Madison Warder Editor Courier: It is really too bad that our esteemed friend Senex has been thrown into the state of mental obfuscation that would seem to be indicated by his remarks in the Courier of April 8. While I entertain much sympathy for him, nevertheless I am constrained to say that he has himself to blame for his unhappy condition. He says in his letter of March 18, referring to my letter of March 14: “I say at a glance that it was true, because I had read most of it long ago in ‘The Cellular Cosmogony’.” I was therefore much surprised that he should have been so befuddled by my “extended explanation,” and that he should have indulged in so many rash statements in objection thereto. If he had been familiar with…