Show r T No Test of Truth I FREEDOM of tho thought has never been welcome y Copernicus dared not publish the heliocentric theory Galileo was exiled and persecuted until h he retracted the heresy of the movement of the earth eath Roger Bacon was imprisoned for many i years years' on account of his theories regarding physical phenomena and Bruno was murdered for tor his scientific scientific scientific heresies Servetus was convicted because he asserted that Jerusalem was was wasa a barren place and not flowing with milk and honey When Calvin decided to have him burned one of the grounds of his conviction was that he believed in inthe inthe the antipodes the antipodes the physical existence of people on U the e opposite side of the earth Three hundred years ago an opinion on theology theology theology the the- that would not be considered orthodox subjected the conscientious person to to unlimited physical torture at the hands of devout theo theo- I Two hundred years ago go in the United I States the belief that people are possessed of the devil and the justice of witch burning were prevalent A hundred and fifty years ago it was I ne necessary essary for a gentleman to defend his honor by dueling A hundred years ago Vil William Villiam iam Lloyd Garrison was dragged through the streets of Boston Boston- with a rope around his waist for advocating advocating cating the abolition of slavery In every case the theories s or opinions then universally held to be right are re now universally held eld to be wrong and tl the e. e opposite right Ortho Ortho- doxy o is not test of truth I |