It is so stated in all the history books.
Incidentally, new facts were learned about the nature, size, and form of the earth, and the Ptolemaic system went glimmering." Dr.Hammerfield snorted.
"You do not agree with me ?" Ernest queried.

"Then wherein am I wrong ?" "I can only reaffirm my position," Dr.Hammerfield retorted tartly.

"It is too long a story to enter into now." "No story is too long for the scientist," Ernest said sweetly.

"That is why the scientist gets to places.

That is why he got to America." I shall not describe the whole evening, though it is a joy to me to recall every moment, every detail, of those first hours of my coming to know Ernest Everhard.
Battle royal raged, and the ministers grew red-faced and excited, especially at the moments when Ernest called them romantic philosophers, shadow-projectors, and similar things.