States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

I hope, or I could not live.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.