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In his work, he pointed out that the meter was devised by
man, whereas he believed the Pyramid Inch, and thus the British
Inch, were a measurement provided by god. And while scientists
seem to have in general rejected the work of Taylor and Smyth,
and many scholars accepted their theories and made them an
article of faith, particularly in England and the US, but also even
in France.

Many of Smyth's contemporaries and disciples were as
hostile to the metric system as was he. With some amusement
Martin Gardner recounts the fact that in the United States the
pyramidologist Ohio Auxiliary Society, of which President
James A. Garfieid was a supporter, published a journal entitled
The International Standard to defend the "true inch" and other

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