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)

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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