We would have no electric lights without the dynamo, and no dynamo if wire-drawing had not first been perfected.
So it goes—everything is dependent on factors that have preceded and any achievement of today is the result of thousands of years of previous effort and thought.
And the knowledge that we are adding to the world's store today is but the foundation for further advance by men to come.
As long as we don't know everything there will be things we cannot explain and these things will be called chance. Into the life of every human being there enter these inexplicable occurrences.
Silent Partner.
CHAPTER III.
PATENTS THE GREATEST SOURCE OF WEALTH
"Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed, that he has grown so great?"—Shakespeare.