The Plane Truth, by Bob Schadewald (© 2015)
Chapter 7
الترجمة في الاسفل
Lady Blount and the Decline of British Flat-Earthism
The
stage was now set for one who would dominate the movement for
more than two decades, a genteel and tiny tigress, Lady Elizabeth
Anne Mould Blount.
Lady Blount was born in south London at about 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday,
May 7, 1850. Her father, architect and land surveyor James Zecharias
Williams, hailed from Cader Idris, a mountain in northern Wales.
Williams had an interest in astronomy and friends in high places—Prince
Louis Napoleon, for instance, later Emperor of France. He was
a middle-aged widower with seven children when he married Elizabeth
Anne Mould, daughter of a scholar and solicitor. Elizabeth Williams
was pious and musically inclined. When the time came to deliver their
first child, a girlhood injury impeded her. After a long, difficult,
and fruitless labor, surgeons delivered the child by Caesarian
section.
Forty-four years later, the surgeons were criticized in an
astrological magazine. According to the July 1894 issue of The
Future, they picked the worst possible time, astrologically
speaking, “for they began it just as the evil planet MARS
had culminated!” Had they waited until Jupiter culminated
three hours later, the stars would have been more favorable. Stars or
no stars, the now-routine operation was exceedingly dangerous when
performed without anesthetics, antiseptics, or antibiotics. The young
mother died five days later. Her twice-widowed husband gave the baby
her name, Elizabeth Anne Mould Williams.
Unfortunately, our only source of information about Elizabeth’s
early life is the 1894 horoscope, apparently published with her
permission:
Mercury being strong in Gemini and so near Venus, and
configurated with the ascending degree (by the aspect of 135°)
childhood was characterized by cleverness, studiousness,
light-heartedness, and love of music. Lady Blount inherited from her
mother exceptional musical talent. Jupiter being in a prominent
position, in zodiacal parallel with the ascendant and connected with
the Moon (in a Jovian sign) by zodiacal parallel, the religious
feeling of the mother was also inherited by the child, free from
narrow-minded sectarianism.
With all due respect for Jupiter, James Williams, like his second
wife, was a devout Christian, and he might have influenced the
religious convictions of his youngest daughter. In 1862, when
Elizabeth was only 12, James retired to Hereford, a town of 10,000
lying in a wooded river valley near the Welsh border, 144 railway
miles west-northwest of London and about 45 miles north of Cardiff as
the rook flies. There he educated Elizabeth far beyond the norm for
19th century English women. As she matured, her beauty, intelligence,
and wealthy father gave her above average prospects. In October
1870 [ref. 7.1] ,
at age 20, she married Walter de Sodington Blount. Walter was a Roman
Catholic and seventeen years older than his Protestant bride, but he
was eldest son of Baronet Edward Blount, and presumably his prospect
of a title and 6000 acres more than compensated for these
deficiencies.
There are indications that the marriage was not a happy one. Sir
Walter inherited the title and land in 1881, but he was (in the eyes
of his wife) cold, cruel, and Catholic. If he had any unusual
opinions, he didn’t express them in the public press. Not so his
lady.
Lady Blount was a right-wing Shirley MacLaine, and she went out on
many a limb. She promoted causes, pursued publicity, and was not
reluctant to express an opinion. Like Charles Johnson,
whom we will meet in Chapter 9,
she was an ardent antivivisectionist.
Among her medical unorthodoxies was her booklet entitled Magnetism
as a Curative Agency. She was closely associated with the
Anglo-Israelites, who still claim the Anglo-Saxons are the true heirs
of Abraham, and the British monarchy reigns from the Throne of David.
Lady Blount first appears in flat-earth annals in 1892, when The
Faith, a British Seventh-day Adventist periodical, published some
of her planely worded letters-to-the-editor. Around the same time,
she published a broadsheet blasting the spherical heresy. She was
then 42 years old, the mother of four teenage children and, by her
own admission, a geographer, explorer, mathematician, author, and
poet.
Cyrus E. Brooks, editor of The Faith, represented the
majority view in adventism. Brooks rejected zetetic astronomy and
(after publishing a few letters, including one from Lady Blount)
refused to print zetetic letters. His periodical remained a favorite
of “Zetetes” and other zetetics, however, and he retained
the respect and friendship of many of them. In 1898, for instance,
Brooks published Lady Blount’s flat-earth novel Adrian Galilio: A
Songwriter’s Story.
Lady Blount was one of the more prominent new zetetics. She made her
Earth Review debut in the second issue with a letter praising
the publication and ordering fifty copies for “free
distribution.” She then lived in Bath, a resort town famed
since Roman times for its hot mineral springs. Bath was about a three-hour
train ride (107½ miles) west of London, so she was a bit out
of the mainstream of zetetic affairs. She could, however, contribute
to the Earth Review, and contribute she did. To the July 1893
issue, she contributed a poem (or song), “The Glory of God;” [ref. 7.2]
to the October issue, a letter and an article, “Scientific
Credulity versus Religious Beliefs;” to the next issue,
dated January 1894, an 80-line poem, “The Why and Because.”
The last verse gives its flavor and neatly sums it up:
The Law of the Lord is reliable, sure,
The Creator’s description is perfect and pure,
And the Word of our God shall forever endure, While the wisdom of worldlings shall fall:
And heaven’s “above,” saith the Lord, the most High,
The earth is “beneath” the grand dome of the sky,
And “under the Earth” is the “water,” then why Believe in the infidel’s “ball”? [ref. 7.3]
The Creator’s description is perfect and pure,
And the Word of our God shall forever endure, While the wisdom of worldlings shall fall:
And heaven’s “above,” saith the Lord, the most High,
The earth is “beneath” the grand dome of the sky,
And “under the Earth” is the “water,” then why Believe in the infidel’s “ball”? [ref. 7.3]
The same issue contains an organizational manual for the UZS, the
first published.
It shows the Committee included Lady Blount of Bath.
The July 1894 issue contains a sort of flat-earth catechism which she produced.
At first she played second fiddle, but she gradually took over the orchestra.
Lady Blount felt called upon to raise the cultural level of the
zetetic society. Modern sophisticates think it unseemly to commit
hopes, fears, aspirations, or fetishes to rhymed verse. Victorians
were less inhibited. “The Nebular Hypothesis,”
characteristic of Lady Blount’s poetical works, scoffs at the idea
that the solar system (including planet earth) condensed out of a
cloud of hot gases.
THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS
Hypothesis quoted,
“All matter once floated
In atoms wide roaming through space”; When a power, perhaps “Nether,”? Pulled all down together,
How it happened no mortal can trace!
In atoms wide roaming through space”; When a power, perhaps “Nether,”? Pulled all down together,
How it happened no mortal can trace!
But, dear me! however
Could there be a “Nether”?
Or an upward or downward at all? With “atoms” dis-severed, Now gravity-tethered,
And shooting through space like a ball.
Or an upward or downward at all? With “atoms” dis-severed, Now gravity-tethered,
And shooting through space like a ball.
This power of such fame,
“Gravitation” by name,
Pounced down on the atoms while strewing; But further back gaze, O’er eternity’s maze,
What before was good gravity doing?
Pounced down on the atoms while strewing; But further back gaze, O’er eternity’s maze,
What before was good gravity doing?
The gravity theory,
When started was clearly,
A fancy which Newton had “run”; Imagine the notion, This world, mostly ocean,
Once a cinder shot out from the sun!
A fancy which Newton had “run”; Imagine the notion, This world, mostly ocean,
Once a cinder shot out from the sun!
Like Solar relation,
Inherent rotation,
Sent the “globe” whirling round, till full soon— Just picture the view— The sparks, how they flew!
And a beauty so bright made the Moon!
Sent the “globe” whirling round, till full soon— Just picture the view— The sparks, how they flew!
And a beauty so bright made the Moon!
The Sun, the great “Master,”
Sure ought to go faster,
Than the sparks it sent backwards reviewing; Yet globe and Moon too, Keep old Sol well in view,
And play all around while pursuing!
Than the sparks it sent backwards reviewing; Yet globe and Moon too, Keep old Sol well in view,
And play all around while pursuing!
The Globite avers,
It took Millions of Years,
For the earth to develop and cool, Sir, But he who will try To give God the lie,
Shall yet prove himself but a “fool,” Sir. [ref. 7.4]
For the earth to develop and cool, Sir, But he who will try To give God the lie,
Shall yet prove himself but a “fool,” Sir. [ref. 7.4]
Shortly after this was published in Earth Review, it was
reprinted in America, presumably by the growing zetetic contingent
there. Lady Blount herself set the words of “The Nebular
Hypothesis” to music. The result, a sprightly travesty of
Gilbert and Sullivan, is incorporated into her flat-earth novel
Adrian Galilio, or, A Songwriter’s Story.
The latter
seems to include her “serious operetta” entitled “Astrea, or The Witness of the Stars.”
The flat-earth operetta, according to the Earth Review, was
eventually performed in public. Unfortunately (though perhaps
mercifully), no reviews have survived. The May 1896 issue of Earth
Review reprinted a fragment of it while the work was yet in
progress. It is a conversation between two evil spirits sent to earth
to attend a séance in the
early centuries A.D. They discuss their plans for deluding poor
humans and leading them away from Christianity. One spirit, a Prince
among the powers of darkness, speaks as follows:
Spirits prepared throughout the ages,
Shall do our will at fitting stages:
Man’s word ’gainst God’s, shall be accepted,
And false cosmogony erected.
That earth’s a tiny whirling globe,
Shall men set forth in righteous robe!
Above concern that Moses erred,
Tho’ Jesus verified his word,
Denying Earth’s Creator! [ref. 7.5]
Shall do our will at fitting stages:
Man’s word ’gainst God’s, shall be accepted,
And false cosmogony erected.
That earth’s a tiny whirling globe,
Shall men set forth in righteous robe!
Above concern that Moses erred,
Tho’ Jesus verified his word,
Denying Earth’s Creator! [ref. 7.5]
The demon Prince was astonished to see a pope (of all people!) nearly
muck things up by persecuting Galileo, but he was gratified to see
the effort fail. [note 7.1]
One of Lady Blount’s close collaborators was William Thomas Wiseman,
F.R.G.S. [note 7.2]
In 1895, the Sixth International Congress of Geographers was held in
London, and they attended together, writing a joint report for Earth
Review. [ref. 7.6]
At about the same time, they apparently recycled Lady Blount’s old
“Nebular Hypothesis” once more. In a letter published in
the July 1895 Earth Review, Wiseman wrote:
Lady Blount and myself have the pleasure to inform you that our
Valse, “The Earth not a Globe,” or “The Nebular
Hypothesis” having been set to music has been played at the
Crystal Palace by Godfrey’s Military band. It was played there again
to-day, May 3rd, I and her ladyship had notice, and both attended to
hear it. It was well executed, and as you no doubt imagine gave us
great pleasure, not alone for the music, but in having the subject
made so prominently public. [ref. 7.7]
The pair collaborated on a number of musical compositions. A later
issue of Earth Review advertised sheet music for the “Earth
Not a Globe Valse” and “about 30 other Waltzes, Songs,
Hymns, etc., by the same authors, from 1/- to 4/- each. Military Band
Parts, when published, from 6/- each set.” One of the numbers
offered was “Je T’Aime” (“I Love Thee”).
Like his friend and collaborator, William Thomas Wiseman was a
wellspring of unorthodox ideas. In 1882, under the pseudonym
“Abdiel,” he had published Vaccination and Smallpox,
a pamphlet opposing vaccination. He was also author of two religious
tracts and a pamphlet entitled The Metropolitan Water Supply.
An ardent Anglo-Israelite, Wiseman later founded and edited the The
British Ecclesia, journal of the Anglo-Israelite group with the
latter name.
Wiseman made a fleeting appearance in Earth Review with a
one-page article, “The Earth an Irregular Plane.” He
tells how, as a youth, he stood on the Dover shore of the English
Channel and watched a departing ship. When it appeared to be “hull
down,” he borrowed a telescope from an “old salt”
who happened to be nearby. Through the telescope, he could still see
the hull. The old sailor said he’d been all over the world and never
believed it was spherical. Wiseman wrote:
I now, after many years, endorse the old sailor’s experience, that
the world is not a globe, and I have never found the man who could
prove by any practical demonstration that he, or I, are living on a
whirling ball of Earth and water! How is it that the atmosphere goes
round with it? By what law does the dense Earth and the rare
air rush round together? Declare, ye scientists, IF YOU KNOW! The
Scriptures of God’s inspired Prophets contradicts [sic] the unreasonable,
illogical, unscientific delusion, and false philosophy, that the
fixed Earth is a hollow fireball with several motions!
After a flurry of zetetic activity in 1895, Wiseman seems to have
faded from the zetetic scene. Others came on to stay.
Though the British zetetic movement was certainly down, Lady Blount
made sure that it wasn’t out. She soon founded another journal,
Earth, which she edited from at least January 1900 to November
1904. And she continued her lectures, debates, and letter writing.
Apparently, someone went back to the Old Bedford Canal in 1900–1901
and performed new experiments. These aroused sufficient interest
among conventional scientists that on September 17, 1901 one H. Yule
Oldham read a paper about the various Bedford Canal experiments
before the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Oldham
assured conventionalists that everything was all right. His paper is
mentioned in the B.A.A.S. Proceedings, but it was not deemed
worth printing. The paper is cited in English Mechanic 80:256.
Lady Blount was author of a little tract called “The Lord’s
Day,” which advocated the Seventh Day sabbath. It was distributed
by the same Stanberry, Missouri, Adventist group from which Herbert
W. Armstrong later emerged.
On May 11, 1904, Lady Blount returned to the Old Bedford Canal.
Thirty-four years had not stilled zetetic outrage over Wallace’s
“Bedford Canal Swindle.” Several flat-earthers, including
Rowbotham, Carpenter [note 7.3] ,
and Naylor, had returned to the fateful stretch of water between the
Old Bedford and Welney bridges and performed more satisfactory
experiments, but these got little attention outside zetetic circles.
Lady Blount was determined that this time it would be different. She
would return with irrefutable evidence. Accompanying her were
photographer E. Clifton and a camera equipped with a 5000 mm
Dallmeyer telephoto lens. [note 7.4]
Lady Blount had a white sheet 15 feet square hung from Old Bedford
Bridge, with the bottom of the sheet just above the water. Meanwhile,
the skeptical Clifton retired to Welney Bridge, about six miles away.
As he recalled later in a letter to Lady Blount, “On arrival at
Welney I was surprised to find that with a telescope, placed 2ft.
above the level of the water, I could watch the fixing of the lower
edge of the sheet, and afterwards to focus it upon the ground glass
of the camera placed in the same position.”
Clifton was strongly impressed by the results. “I should not
like to abandon the globular theory offhand,” he wrote, “but,
as far as this particular test is concerned, I am prepared to
maintain that (unless rays of light will travel in a curved path)
these six miles of water present a level surface.” In fact,
Clifton’s description of atmospheric conditions that morning—“an
aqueous shimmering vapour
[floated] unevenly on the surface of the canal and adjoining fields”—suggests mirage,
which is the bending of light rays by temperature variations in the
atmosphere. But Clifton and Lady Blount didn’t think so, and when
they subsequently repeated the experiment, Clifton reported that he
could distinctly see two images, the sheet and its reflection on the
water.
Lady Blount tried to place these results before the public, but with
indifferent success. A few newspapers published her letters. That
autumn, the weekly English Mechanic and World of Science
published an exchange of letters between her and their bemused
readers. This culminated on October 28, 1904, with publication of the
famous photograph (in which I can’t even find the bridge). But
there was no wholesale abandonment of the globe and, except among
zetetics, the experiment was quickly forgotten.
The Universal Zetetic Society, of which Lady Blount was now
president, was a mere shadow of its former self. Along with Albert
Smith and perhaps William Thomas Wiseman, she tried to keep it going,
though Wiseman was very busy as head of the Anglo-Israelite movement.
In 1906, Lady Blount and Smith published Zetetic Astronomy, a
modest book of 91 pages. The inside rear cover contained the
following notice:
“UNIVERSAL ZETETIC SOCIETY—Founded in New York in
Sept., 1873, and in London in Dec., 1883 (ten years after the
American), as The Zetetic Society, by ‘Parallax,’ and others,
is now firmly established, by E.A.M.B., (Lady Blount), Ed. of The
Earth, and her army of helpers, throughout the civilized world.
Many local branches of the organization have been started, during the
past five years, in all the principal countries, with the exception
of Russia, where The Earth is not allowed to circulate.”
The President of the Society is E.A.M.B. and vice president is C.
de Lacy Evans, author of Errors of Astronomy, who was also
“Vice-President of the Zetetic Society when first founded.”
The stated object of the new Universal Zetetic Society was “The
propagation of knowledge relating to Natural Cosmogony in
confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based upon practical scientific
investigation.” Society Rule number 1 was: “The so-called
‘sciences,’ and especially Modern Astronomy, to be dealt with from
practical data in connection with the Divine System of Cosmogony
revealed by the Creator.”
Also listed were the twenty-four members of the UZS Committee, a
nice mixture of old and new names. The new committee included British
stalwarts Alexander McInnes of Glasgow University; A. E. Skellam, for
two decades an avid flat-earth lecturer; the brothers John and Isaac
Smith of Halifax; and Albert Smith, here sans his zetetic
pseudonym. Reverend E. W. Brookman of Toronto, the Adventist Elder
Miles Smith of New York, and Dr. Thomas E. Reed of Middleton, Ohio
lent an international flavor. Major-General Edward Armstrong and
Dr. E. Haughton, Senior Moderator in Natural Science at Trinity College, Dublin,
added a touch of authority. The British clergy were represented by
the Reverends A. T. de Learsy, E. V. Mulgrave, E. W. Bullinger, and
Archbishop C. I. Stevens.
Some of these are old friends. Others we will meet in the next
chapter. Several should, however, be noticed here.
Charles Watkyns de Lacy Evans, “M.R.C.S., Ph.D., etc., late
Surgeon, Gold Coast” did not call himself M.D., but he
obviously had an interest in medicine. Evans had been vice president
of the original Zetetic Society when it formed in December 1883.
Later, he wrote a book on the cause of death, increased longevity,
phosphorus, and so forth that appears suspiciously familiar from the
title. Obviously, he was a disciple of Rowbotham. He also wrote
Consumption: A Reinvestigation of its Cause and Cholera:
Its Causes and Prevention, the latter being a reprint of a
lecture.
The British flat-earthers had always hoped to convert the Church of
England to the plane truth, but their successes were limited. Bagging
a real, live Archbishop for the UZS Committee was perhaps Lady
Blount’s greatest coup. In the eighty-odd intervening years, however,
Archbishop Stevens has been largely forgotten. The same cannot be
said for his contemporary, Ethelbert William Bullinger.
Ethelbert William Bullinger, English divine and writer on New
Testament criticism and Biblical theology, was born 15 December 1837.
One of his ancestors, Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger of Zurich
(1504–1575), was a follower of Zwingli, a collaborator with Calvin,
and a sometime theological opponent of Luther. Just as Heinrich
Bullinger’s views strongly influenced the Reformation in England, so
Ethelbert’s views would influence American fundamentalists.
Educated at King’s College, London, Bullinger was ordained in 1861. For
nearly four decades, he served a succession of major churches in
England. He was Secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society from 1867
until his death. His recreations were music and chess, and he
published two books of original hymn tunes. He was editor (and
perhaps founder) of the periodical Things to Come.
Bullinger’s first appearance in flat-earth annals was probably in
1873, when one “E.B.” of “the Vicarage” wrote
a flat letter published in the June 1873 Zetetic [ref. 7.8] .
In 1877, he subscribed for six copies of Carpenter’s Delusion of
the Day, but he was still at pains to conceal his flat-earth
sympathies (he is one of two subscribers whose names are not listed).
In the premier issue of Earth Review, there was the following
quote from Bullinger (incorrectly identified as “Rev. W. E.
Bullinger, D.D.”): “I AGREE with you in your contention
respecting the Earth; for my motto has long been, ‘Let God be true
and every man a liar.’” [ref. 7.9]
His Number in Scripture and The Witness of the Stars
are both in print and are highly regarded by many fundamentalists,
including Henry M. Morris, founder and president of the Institute for
Creation Research.
The first tackles the numerological significance of virtually every
number used in the Bible (seven, for example, is the number of spiritual
perfection); the second proposes the theory that at Creation God
encoded into the constellations a prophecy of the coming of Christ—thus,
Virgo is the Virgin Mary, for example.
Though he died in 1913, Bullinger remains influential among
fundamentalists who accept dispensationalism.
This is the belief that God’s master-plan for the World, from Creation
to the End, set out as a sequence of stages or dispensations, can be
gleaned from a literal interpretation of the Bible, from Genesis to
Revelation.
One of his books was The Foundations of Dispensational Truth (published posthumously,
1930), consisting of material reprinted from Things to Come.
Of his seventy-seven published works, seven (including Number in
Scripture and The Witness of the Stars) are still in
print.
Meanwhile, the flat earth had sprung another pole.
Albert Smith (and to a lesser extent Lady Blount) developed the “two
poles” version of the flat-earth theory. Smith gave himself
(under his pseudonym “Zetetes”) credit for it in part two
of his son Carl Albert Smith’s book, Is the Earth a Whirling
Globe?:
Zetetics owe much to a London medical gentleman, who last century,
under the nom de plume of “Parallax,” revived the zetetic
cause by his able writings and powerful lectures. But it is seldom
given to pioneers to dig out all the truths they unearth. Hence,
early zetetics only acknowledged one pole, no evidence of a south
pole having then been actually discovered by Antarctic explorers. It
was left for “Zetetes” principally to carry on the war,
and to be the first zetetic to acknowledge the proved existence of
two so-called “poles.” This he did many years ago in
various articles published in a book entitled Zetetic Astronomy,
now sold out of stock; and also in lectures in different parts of the
country, and in public debates. He was the first editor of The
Earth—Not a Globe—Review. [ref. 7.10]
Lady Blount continued her lectures, and in 1914 she published Our
Enclosed World, a book of extracts from them. Her husband, Sir
Walter de Sodington Blount, died in October 1915.
The 19th century British flat-earth movement foreshadowed the modern
American creationist movement in every way but success. The British
zetetics never succeeded in selling zetetic astronomy to a critical
mass of Christians-in-the-pews, and it’s not clear why. Zetetic
Astronomy is far better science than Flood Geology, which modern
creationists have sold to millions of Christians, some of them
well-educated. Yet the general education level of the British public
was substantially lower than that of the modern American public.
(Education was not made compulsory in England until 1880.) Some
possible reasons why the British flat-earthers failed are:
a) The flat-earth movement never had big money behind it. Creationism
is promoted by multimillion dollar television ministries.
b) Mainstream British Christianity had no strong tradition of
absolute literalism. The Bible is far more explicit about the
Noachian Deluge than about the shape of the earth, but the Church of
England had already made peace with uniformitarian geology (which
finds no evidence of a universal flood) by the time the flat-earth
movement got started. Indeed, the absolute literalists such as the
Seventh-day
Adventists were large contributors to the movement.
Until this kind of absolutism developed among American
fundamentalists, creationism got nowhere. Again, it was the absolute
literalists—the Seventh-day
Adventists—who led the way in
creationism.
c) It is much easier for would-be literalists to rationalize away the
flat-earth verses of the Bible than it is to do the same with the
creation story. English-speaking fundamentalists were aided in this
by the King James translators, who themselves rationalized away some
of the more explicitly flat-earth passages in the Bible.
d) The flat-earth movement never converted many Falwells. The only
prominent churchman they converted was Ethelbert William Bullinger,
and he was not nearly as influential in his lifetime as later.
Furthermore, he was mainly a closet flat-earther, and he never beat
the drums for the Plane Truth like Jerry Falwell has for creationism.
e) Scientists were more successful at ignoring the flat-earthers. The
flat-earthers did get people to debate them, but they were freelance
do-gooders, not respected scientists. Thus, the flat-earthers never
managed to create the illusion that a scientific controversy exists.
(The only scientist who actually did challenge the
flat-earthers—Alfred Russel Wallace—did nothing but strengthen the movement.)
f) The sphere does not threaten fragile Christian egos like the image
of the chimpanzee. (Fundamentalists want desperately to “be as
gods,” and they can’t deal with the idea that they might be
something less.) Preachers can easily argue that all of Christianity
collapses if evolution is true.
g) The flat-earthers actually had a model to defend, and not a very
good one. The creationists typically refuse to talk about creationism
in public, concentrating almost exclusively on attacking evolution.
The creationist tactic is intellectually dishonest but successful.
h) Preachers in British churches were not constantly attacking the
sphericity of the earth. Fundamentalists have been preaching hatred
for evolution (and, by extension, most of science) ever since Darwin.
Many fundamentalists have been listening to anti-evolution sermons
off and on all of their lives. Thus, when someone with scientific
credentials comes along and says the same thing, they have been
programmed to believe it.
i) Psychologically, fundamentalists “bet the farm” on
doctrines tied to a certain interpretation of the Bible. First of
all, there is autocorrelation; they wouldn’t be fundamentalists if
they didn’t have a powerful opinion of their position in the universe—the
image of God and all that. They have sold their souls for a doctrine much threatened by evolution.
In 1923, Lady Blount married Stephen Morgan, and she apparently had
little to do with the Blounts or the flat-earth movement after that.
Her grandson, Sir Walter Edward Alpin Blount
(1917–2004), remembered
her as a tiny old lady who always wore black and didn’t say much—unless
someone set her off with a word like “globe.”
Lady Blount died in December 1935. By then, the British flat-earth
movement was in limbo, but zetetic seeds were firmly rooted across
the sea.
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