Errors
While chastising C.J. for mixing up several historical events, Toby inaccurately says that Jamestown was settled in the 16th century.
When asked by President Bartlet to name the apostles, the Chinese Christian names eleven - Peter, Andrew, John, Phillip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, Thaddeus, Simon, Judas and James. He neglects to note that there were two apostles named James.
When Sam and Josh are meeting with religious leader Al Caldwell over the state of religious persecution in China, Rev. Caldwell mispronounces Henan Province, China as "He Nane" instead of the correct "Huh Naan". Given that this episode is about saying shibboleth to prove you know what you are talking about, it is ironic that Caldwell would mispronounce Henan, proving that he actually knows very little about China.
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“The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Repent, repent, and from old errors turn!’
Who listened to his voice, obeyed his cry?
Only the echoes, which he made relent,
Rung from their marble caves ‘Repent! Repent!’”
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“When a Man is in a serious Mood, and ponders upon his own Make, with a Retrospect to the Actions of his Life, and the many fatal Miscarriages in it, which he owes to ungoverned Passions, he is then apt to say to himself, That Experience has guarded him against such Errors for the future: But Nature often recurs in Spite of his best Resolutions, and it is to the very End of our Days a Struggle between our Reason and our Temper, which shall have the Empire over us.”
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