Copyright, 1917, by
John Ames Mitchell
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into foreign languages
To the Reader
This is not a fairy tale.
The wonders of to-day, we are told by scientists, will be to-morrow the common things of daily life.
Wireless telegraphy, it appears, is but the crude beginning to a deeper knowledge of the mysteries that surround us. Waves of thought, like waves of light, obedient to our will, may supplant the spoken word and the written message.
And we learn that Space, the borderless abyss through which we move, is vibrant with electric life. But still unsolved is the mystery of the force that holds the moon, for instance, to its orbit around the earth. And it holds it with a mightier power than bars of steel.