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The Geodetic Staff is enthusiastically at work on the coast at Naples, Florida. The mechanical proof of the concavity of the earth is the last straw to break the back of the old dromedary, the Copernican system of astronomy. The basis of the “Higher Criticism” is a system of astronomy, the premise of which Professor Harkness and others declare to be an assumption. The Bible is declared to be defective, because it does not conform to a system of so called science which the scientist (?) declares to be merely an hypothesis. Some day, we will hear Moses declaim on the mistakes of Ingersoll.
The position taken by the Koreshan System is, that if we prove our first step and reason logically to a conclusion, we prove our conclusion. If we assume our premise and reason logically from an assumption, the conclusion is an assumption. The so called scientific world has a “science” predicated upon what it declares to be an assumption. Upon the basis of this assumption it assumes to question the declarations of Deity through inspiration and illumination, and would thus further the cause of atheism.
We purpose to demonstrate mechanically the fallacy of the Copernican system, thereby destroying the basis of the “Higher Criticism.” We purpose to turn “wise men backward and make their knowledge foolish,” and declare the so called wise men of the age a set of idiots. However, we do not blame them: they could not help it. Their teacher arose in the dark ages, and they have been groping along in the light of the flickering candle hypotheticated at that time.
The operations of the Koreshan Geodetic Staff at Naples will be a confirmation of the Cellular Cosmogony that we have been advocating for the last twenty-six years. The world will be forced to examine the claims of the Koreshan premise. Our system confirms the accuracy of the knowledge of the ancient men of God.
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