These have resisted, sometimes by resorting to bloodshed, attempts that have been made to correct its incontestable errors--a resistance grounded on the suspicion that the localization of heaven and hell and the supreme value of man in the universe might be affected.
That such attempts would be made was inevitable.

As soon as men began to reason on the subject at all, they could not fail to discredit the assertion that the earth is an indefinite plane.

No one can doubt that the sun we see to-day is the self-same sun that we saw yesterday.

His reappearance each morning irresistibly suggests that he has passed on the underside of the earth.

But this is incompatible with the reign of night in those regions.