A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

A young mistress is better than an old master.

Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.

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