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Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 November 1883, Page 11

Mr Henry George lias written a reply to the many criticisms on his recently published volume on “ Progress and Poverty.” It is to be issued in London in a shilling volume by Mr W Peeves. ° A delightful joke (remarks Mrs. Besant in the National Reformer) was played off the other clay on the Christian world. It was announced that Noah’s real original ark had been found on the top of Mount Ararat! The Pall Mall Gazette quotes thereon the following, which appeared in a letter to a “ Conservative contemporary” : “In these davs of scepticism and ran infidelity, when men scoff at the truthfulness of the word of God, yea, there are those among us even professing Christianity who doubt the authenticity of the Pentateuch, Many there are also who disbelieve in the Old Testament altogether, and look upon it as an obsolete book. In these days, therefore, it is refreshing to hear from what may be considered a reliable source that Noah’s Ark has been discovered.” The “ reliable source” was that truthful journal, the Levant Herald ! I cannot, however, help suspecting that that believing letter-writer was, in his turn playing off a joke on the Conservative sheet. '