"Why should 'everybody' be supposed to know anything at all?
What business is it of 'everybody's' to know things?
The earth was just as round in the days when people supposed it to be flat, as it is now.

So the truth remains always the truth, even though you give a charter to ten hundred thousand separate numskulls to examine it by the light of their private judgment, and report that it is as many different varieties of something else.

But of course that whole question of private judgment versus authority is No-Man's-Land for us.
We were speaking of eponyms." "Yes," said Theron; "it is very interesting." "There is a curious phase of the subject which hasn't been worked out much," continued the priest.

"Probably the Germans will get at that too, sometime.

They are doing the best Irish work in other fields, as it is.
I spoke of Heber and Heth, in Genesis, as meaning the Hebrews and the Hittites.