1872 THE WORST BOOK OF 19th CENTURY. A Quasi-Medical, Eugenics, Sci-Fi Thriller by a Debunked Minister. Evangelical Signed by Culver on the

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Let us be honest with our hearts & carefully to remember & never to forget our Solemn Covenant

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1872 THE WORST BOOK OF 19th CENTURY. A Quasi-Medical, Eugenics, Sci-Fi Thriller by a Debunked Minister. Evangelical Signed by Culver on theSimon Mohler Landis may have penned what was one of the oddest publications of the 19th century. Landis was a controversial [that's putting it nicely] clergyman and hydropath from Pennsylvania. In between quasi medical "inventioning," he also pastored the "First Progressive Church of Philadelphia," of which he was the sole originator [1865]. Ever in financial crisis and often completely bankrupt, he attempted to make a living through lectures and by