CHAPTER XVIII. AS A COLLEGE PRESIDENT.
In the founding of Asbury College, Rev. J. W. Hughes made his one noted contribution to the cause of Christian education. History has always paid high honor and special tribute to men of initiative, foresight and inventive genius, to organizers, founders and discoverers, to the benefactors of mankind. We honor Galile'O' and Gutenberg for giving us the telescope and the Art of printing, we honor Christopher Columbus and John Oahot for discovering the Western Hemisphere; we honor Sir Isaac Newton for disCO'Vering the law of gravitation; we honor Sir John Mandeville or Galileo f'Or teaching the rotundity of the earth; we honor Copernieus for teaching the 1''0'tation of the earth around the sun, known as the heliocentric system of astI'lonomy; we honor Servetus and Dr. Harvey for the discovery of double circulati'On of the blood; we honor Pa路steur and Virchow f.or teaching the germ theory; we honor Watts, Whitney, Stephenson, Fulton, Howe, Bell, Morse, Edis;on, Marconi, Jenner, Bloch, Selden, Rontgen, Madame Currie for their respective inventi'Ons and dis,coveries. We h'Onor George Wash. ington for founding the American nati'On; we praise Thomas Jefferson, the sage of MonticellO', for penning the immO'rtal Declaration of Indepefi196