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must no longer be left in the hands of prejudiced and interested 

 professionals, aided by a venal and insolent press, who have no object but 

 to flatter and pander to the pride of an unthinking and lie-loving age. 

 These covetous hirelings, who are unfortunately the representatives of the 

 scientific associations, think it politic to denounce and abuse everything 

 that runs counter to their own ignorance and selfishness, and of course 

 maintain that the " execrable superstitions of Galileo and Newton "are 

 to be regarded as gospel to the end of time. We are equally determined 

 that this vile conspiracy to deceive the whole world shall be thwarted and 

 exposed. The deception has, by the aid of Protestant divines, lasted 

 upwards of a century already. We say Protestants, because the Church 

 of Eome has, from the outset, resisted and opposed the insane delusions of 

 infidel mathematicians. There is not an educated Roman Catholic in the 

 world who does not regard the Newtonian theory with abhorrence and 

 contempt. 



One word on the subject of Naval Science. Though the shape of the 

 earth may not be thought to have much to do with ship-building, yet we 

 maintain that a parcel of blockheads who do not even know the shape of 

 the ocean over which they are constantly sailing, cannot possibly arrive at 

 perfection in the construction of anything they take in hand. Here are a 

 set of men with the compass constantly before their eyes. They know as 

 well as we do that that instrument was never intended, any more than the 

 spirit level, to act except on a horizontal surface. Yet because that lying 

 old lunatic, Sir Isaac Newton, said his mathematical calculations would be 

 'thrown to the winds if they were not practically applied and accepted as 

 true, England has for ever disgraced itself by believing one of the most 

 astounding falsehoods that the mind of man was ever capable of inventing. 



Let it be remembered, and we beg to draw most particular attention to 

 this fact, that Copernicus, the original inventor of the globular theory, 

 said it was a lie, and that those who believed it would leave off the study 

 of it bigger fools than when they began ! ! ! And he dropped down dead 

 the very first day his friends, contrary to his wishes, brought him his 

 manuscript in print ! Yet this bastard theory, which the inventor himself 

 refused to acknowledge, and died at the thoughts of its being regarded as 

 his work, is, up to this very day, defended and approved by philosophers 

 and divines, and regarded with a thousand fold more interest than the 

 teachings of the inspired writers, who knew nothing of all this impious 

 attempt to improve upon the designs of the Almighty Creator. But 

 confusion and dismay await them. Perhaps no humiliation that England 

 could experience as a nation would equal the terrible and overwhelming 

 announcement that its favourite science of a hundred years duration should 

 be proved at last to be an old wife's fable, contrary to fact, to reason, and 

 to the positive evidence of our senses. A thousand armies landed on every 

 side of our sea-girt shores would not create half the dismay and confusion 

 that will attend the discovery of Newton s base imposture. But its days 

 are numbered ; if it perish not in the crucible of philosophy, it will 

 crumble in the hands of time. J. H. 



Friends of Sir Isaac Newton are careful to suppress the well-known fact 

 that ten of his most carefully prepared Works, left in manuscript at his 

 death, were pronounced by his executors to be unfit for publication, being 

 so full of sceptical opinions on religious subjects ; and they were consigned 

 to the flames, lest they should damage his reputation ! 



