Indeed, it is really difficult to ascertain the exact truth in America.

How many American fortunes are built on misrepresentation that is needless, for nothing else is half so strong as truth.
"Does the devil lie ?" was asked of Sir Thomas Browne.

"No, for then even he could not exist." Truth is necessary to permanency.
In Siberia a traveler found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with the naked eye.

These men have made little advance in civilization, yet they are far superior to us in their accuracy of vision.

It is a curious fact that not a single astronomical discovery of importance has been made through a large telescope, the men who have advanced our knowledge of that science the most working with ordinary instruments backed by most accurately trained minds and eyes.
A double convex lens three feet in diameter is worth $60,000.