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Show I 'There Shall Be Wings' When Leonardo da Vinci, standing stand-ing at the edge of the precipice on Mount Albano, saw the flying ma-chine ma-chine of his designing crash in the valley below, he cried to the winds, so one of his biographers 4 states: "There shall be wings. If the accomplishment be not for me, J 'tis for some other. It shall be 4 done. The spirit cannot lie; and J man, who shall know all and who shall have wings, shall indeed be f as a god." ' Three years before Columbus' 4 discovery of America, da Vinci J wrote in his notebook: "If the 4 eagle can sustain himself in the rarest atmosphere, if great ships 4 can float across the waves, why j cannot likewise man, by means of powerful wings, make himself J lord of the winds and rise con-4 con-4 queror of space?" The question was answered, the j prophecy was fulfilled in the New J World to which the ships of Tos-t Tos-t canelli's other pupil led the way. J America may proudly cherish the t little shop of the Wright brothers, which Henry Ford has made a i part of his collection of significant I American landmarks and which has taken on a world distinction from the "deeds of the doers" who worked there. New York Times. |