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The Hydrostatic Paradox of Controversy

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 18, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 14, No. 13.

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The Hydrostatic Paradox of Controversy

If a man attacked my opinions in print, would I reply? Not I. Do you think I do not understand what my friend, the Professor, long ago called the hydrostatic paradox of controversy? Don't I know what that means? Well, I'll tell you. You know if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was the size of a pipe stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand in the same height in one as the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, and the fools know it.—Sel.