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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 10. June 14, 1939

[introduction]

When very young, the present writer believed implicitly in the British Israelite theories concerning the Great Pyramid—you know, the passages are measured in inches, one inch represents one year, and by the places where passages intersect marvellous prophecies are disclosed. He was demonstrating this theory to his class at school on one occasion. In the presence of the form-master, and, at the conclusion of what he considered a magnificent logical survey of the subject, was somewhat dashed by the form-master's comment.

"Go on!" he said. "I could prove all that from a rabbit-hole!"

The form-master's comment was perfectly true. In the infinite number of relationships constituting experience. It is easy to select and correlate certain facts bearing a similarity to one another, and produce logically the most absurd results. Thus I know a person who believes that the Bible Is divinely inspired because he can show that the letters, words, and sentences of the original manuscripts are constructed throughout on an intricate and involved series of sevens—the seventh verse has seven words, etc.