Here is a fairy tale founded upon the wonders of electricity and written for children of this generation. Yet when my readers shall have become men and women my story may not seem to their children like a fairy tale at all.
Perhaps one, perhaps two—perhaps several of the Demon's devices will be, by that time, in popular use.
Who knows?
"In wonder all philosophy began; in
wonder it all ends; and admiration
fills up the interspace. But the first
wonder is the offspring of ignorance:
the last is the parent of adoration."
—Coleridge.
THE MASTER KEY