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A possibly apocryphal story from Herman Oliver's Gold and Cattle Country concerns a local prominence once called Squaw Tit (not all of the pioneers being missionaries); the Geographic Board decided the name was too earthy and, wishing to retain a semblance of the original appellation changed the name to Squaw Butte ; when the map came out with the new name, the final e was unfortunately omitted.
The story of Columbus and the Madeiran archipelago is not entirely apocryphal, unlike so many other tales related to the islands.
Speaking of Gentiles , there is a story (perhaps apocryphal) that the famous Israeli general and archaeologist, Yigael Yadin, once prefaced a speech at the University of Utah with the observation, You know, this is probably the only place I can come and be a Gentile!
I wonder now if his problem isn't that he realizes he can't be and so--to paraphrase Baldwin's famous, if apocryphal, observation--this son must kill his father.
His best example of empiricism's limits was the (apocryphal) story of how, at the dawn of the Enlightenment, a scientist tried to establish the existence of the human soul "not by speculating on the Vital Principle and the Intrinsic Substance of the Soul, as described in Aristotle and the Church Fathers, but by weighing a condemned criminal before and after execution."