"The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.“


-Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

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