“It’s a mad, as well as a clever world, my masters…
…and there are societies in London to-day, run by very ‘toffy’ people, too, whose mission is to prove that the world is flat! They call themselves ‘Zetetics’ but I fail to see what good they will do even if they prove this theory. Rents will still be high, so will motor cars; sausages will not be lowered a cent., and nervous people will be compelled to stay indoors at night for fear of straying to the edge of the world and toppling over into abyssmal space. At the last meeting of the Zetetics, where the lady spoke so disrespectfully of poor Mr. I. Newton, the chair was taken by the Rev. E. W. Bullinger, D.D.”
