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Show MAN'S PROPHECY OF FLYING and eagles behind him, and the contagion con-tagion of his confidence seized upon the prince. In a year the wings were finished, and on a morning appointed, the maker mak-er appeared furnished for flight on a little promontory; he waved hia pinions awhile to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant in-stant dropped into the lake. His wings, which were of no use In the air, sustained him in the water, and the prince drew him to land. Character in "Rasselas" Said That Aviator Would Be Next Step After Swimming. Chicago. Among the prophecies of conquest of the air, the account of an Inventor's faith that men could learn to fly since they have learned to 3wim, as found In Johnson's "Rasselas," "Rasse-las," is interesting. The mechanic says: "I have been long of opinion that instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings: that the fields of air are open to knowledge, find that only ignorance and Idleness need crawl upon the ground." This hint rekindled the prince's desire de-sire of passing the mountains; having seen what the machinist had already pe-fo-med. he was willing to fancy t'.at he could do more. ... "I am ifraid," said he to the artist, "that 7our imagination prevails over your kill, and that you now tell me rather rath-er what you wish, than what you now. . . ." "So," replied the machinist, ma-chinist, "fishes have the water. In which yet beasts can swim by nature, and men by art. He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to float in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim In a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter thiough which we are to pass. You i will be necessarily upborne by the air. If you can renew any Impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure." The prince promised secrecy, and waited for the performance, not wholly whol-ly hopeless of success. He visited the work from time to time, observed Its progress, and remarked many ingenious in-genious contrivances to facilitate motion mo-tion and unite levity with strength. The artist was every day more certain cer-tain that he should leave vultures |