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...Minneapolis said: "When today you call the roll of these schools you name the captains of the hosts of Hell. They marshal their forces to fight the authority of the Book, the blood atonement and every Christian fundamental. . . . Satan is busy. . . . Our refusal to cackle over every discovery of dinosaur eggs 10,000,000 years old or to enthuse over Science, falsely socalled, has led some men to name us ignoramuses . . . but is it not well to remember that Christ of the Fundamentalists is to this hour 'the light of the world...
...power of seeing by ultraviolet rays. ¶ Faraday's classic magnet apparatus side by side with the latest developments of radio. The visitor can control the exhaustion of a vacuum tube, and the beautiful effects of electrical discharge through the rarefield gas. ¶ The famous dinosaur eggs discovered by the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History...
When one reads that a dinosaur egg of ten million years vintage is to be auctioned off by the New York Museum of Natural History to raise funds for continued Asiatic Research, one must wonder what market this stony curiosity will find. Mr. Andrews, the chief curator and wielder of the hammer in the present sale, evidently has no question for he states that bids will open at five thousand dollars. Certainly if any private citizen should buy it and not use it in the foundation of his house or as a stepping stone, he would need a room "founded...
...buyer of a dinosaur egg, unless the buyer be a Museum, seems in worse case even than the collector of old books--or certain old books. There are of course old books which have in their content more or less value for the intellect. And there are old books which fell like lead upon their ago and generation and which by their bindings and beautiful print and wooden illustrations appeal only to the eye. But an object d'art practically the only value of which lies in its use as a test of human muscle must fall in the lowest...
...emotions and sympathies of the author, has at present the resource of shocking the public into buying. But as the stimulant grows stronger, its effects become less potent, and one day the revolution against Victorian sentiment and unexiting domesticity will itself be revolted against. And then these literary dinosaur eggs will become as petrified as those of Pope's clan...