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| − | Sometimes known as '''Zetetes''', '''Albert Smith''' was an author and Flat Earth advocate during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He acted as editor of ''Earth Not A Globe Review'' and worked extensively with [[Lady Blount]] (aka Zeteo) in the [[Universal Zetetic Society]]. Even after relinquishing his position of editor, he continued to write in defense of Flat Earth theory, his most popular book being ''Is the Earth a Whirling Globe as Assumed and Taught by Modern Astronomical 'Science'?''. Like other Zetetics of the time, Smith placed a heavy emphasis on first-hand experience as a means of attaining truth:
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| − | {{cite|It yet remains for the Copernican school of Astronomy to prove that the Earth upon which we walk about so complacently, and the country which on a fine day looks so calm and peaceful, is flying through space at a total aggregate speed of something like 86,000 miles per hour. Shall we blindly believe a theory which in the nature of things is so impracticable, and a theory which directly contradicts the evidences of our God-given senses? We feel no motion; we see no motion; and we hear no motion; while our senses favour the reasonable and demonstrable fact that the earth is stationary.}}
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