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THE ADVOCATE.I the Irishram appearedn:-bruary 22nd.n terminated, four thouaand tatlmeut, for a-bound PaiTy. tnd faetionlst*KENNEDY.Hoax.N3 P1USD1C- ’iblcd from Lon-t hat Profaaaor tho Aatronomi-ount Vesuvius, are would bo a war! h and n calilo mesaago er published in f which appoar-ling nuwipapera s. howover. did and their atti-f a subsequent lily Telegraph” its Milan cor-ws— Profcasor i* letter which In an Italian {nature, slating u the earth andOf • Bull and a Carnet.In the February number of tho• Month,” the odjtor, Kr. Gerard, B.J., has an amusing article entitled “Oi a Hull und n Cumet.*’ And it is hardly t necessary to add (says tho *• Tabiot ) f tliat, unliku our ooutemporaiy, the ( “Smart Bet, it furnisboa ua with instruction a* well ua amusement. That n Pop*1,’’ soys Fr. Uorard, did once soluiu lily ban und onathouiatiau a comet, bidding it la-gone from the sky. is nn old story, much in favour with certain writers who lovo to doacant on the ignorance and ineptitude ol our pre-acivn title ancestors, m coiitraatud with our own enlightened age, when no one speak* of what he docs not know,«r maki-s statement* which he is not ready to support by conclusive evidence. It is certainly an old atory, and a« such it comes to us with all tho eight and authority ot a venerable tradition. And the critiq. has little difficulty in citing a host of highly respectable writers, among them being inioent men of aeirncc, who have told it with satisfaction, and t*ken it aa a typical omao of Popish superstition and credulity. Rut when he comes to ask for tho conclusive evidence, it is conspicuous only by its absence. And tho reader is left, with the painful impression that these rwipcctubls writers have given currency to the tab' without taking proper earn to inquire into its truth It would seem that, after all.• hi* tale of o Cornet and a Hull must he olanscd in the same doubtful category a* the relebrated “ storv ot u Cock and n Hull
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Melbourne Advocate
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Sat, Apr 13, 1907
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