Show The Conquest of the Air I 1 liv 11 i Tho Time Danish Humanity stands upon a L new thresh thresh- I old A new door has been opened opened opened-a a door Into a new Immense space Time The space still rm remains in semi dark ness As in Limo tho twilight we wc barely get et geta a glimpse and amid guess at all nil tho the strange und confusing new forms Corms and t lions Ions But Bul we are arc able to get got a glimpse and we 0 wonder and antl almost fear Three e lays days ago we drove through h II Il was a n. little after mid mid- da day thay rime Tho trees which still have havo their foliage e. e stood green as us If Ir In June Juno and anti the marble marblo men glittered Suddenly tho the young youns- chauffeur cried out from tho tIme seal seat Look see sec the time airship And hen r we wr raised rained our heads we wo all saw the time gigantic hull of ot the tIme airship like 1110 an aim Immense brownish whale swimming swimming swim swim- ming mint through h time the air A I whale which stopped turned swam swain on stopped oum-stopped stopped again swung around slower and again a faster Casler ma- ma jostle and lo to our unused eyes even cven more than U And while continuing to lo stare at this timis bod body sailing along which had laid conquered conquer cOnquer- ed elt time the air alt m umi friend suddenly said said sald- null and her voice olce sounded dim I How lIow stran strange e M My undo grand was with Robert Hobert Fulton on board bard his steamboat l in ill r New ew York What a a. century since then But BilL time tho young man on the time front seat whose beaming IS- IS year IS-year r el old face foce was still turned toward th the whale said Yes Y and t JH iL ui cell century Is 10 tp conic come The first steamboat The Thc first boat cleaving the time waves wa IJ- IJ by the time aid niti of steam How Jow did tIld the time world look 1001 time tho lay day be before before he- he fore It happened Are Arc wo we really able ahle to Imagine Vo 0 read of or It and hear of it hut but tb do we wc conceive It II Hardly a Land Lund and sea soa oa wore vore subdued b by steam Five continents were made Into one and the time earth grew grow smaller under the time rub rule of tiC steam And Antl what was nol changed Tho alms aims of or the time states stales and lie Iho forms of ot commerce time the forums forms of human pallon pation the time communication between iho tho people anti and time the forms of war Time The structure of time the social ho hotly body and the time conquest of time the earth b by man Everything was waR enlarged changed overthrown and created anew All 11 tho timo forms Conns of life life- were changed And 1111 not alom these Man himself WaS given on I a new pulse the time blood In his veins another tion tiomi His Hla thoughts though ts were 11 given ven a new tempo and amid with the thoughts his iris feelings feel feel- ings and with tho feelings his hiser er very sou soul Yes W 11 MT riot not w wo we thus Ihus changed thal wo WI were WICO given a n nc now new soul During this immense immen e evolution of time the speed of life during dimming this Hits unlocked for forc collapse c of bounds hounds and walls during thin annihilation of distances during this race across oceans ocean and tunneling through mountains luring during the Iho approach approach ap ap- ap- ap of oC tho the nations until the time races rt stood face aco to fuco face-did face did wo not really receive cl a no new nw soul While tIme the continents became one world and the lie earth carth became small small small- The earth But nul sUll still only tho earth and what belonged be ho- longed lo to the time earth the earth the continents and amid ocean n ii But Dut now Look at the victorious vessels navigating navigating navi navi- gating the time air Where will It 11 carr carry us Who Is able to Lo prophesy or 01 guess As s yet It is un ungovernable and ami primitive primitive primi primi- tive Live I Like Ilo a a. strange stran toy loy formed bythe by bythe the time hands of or a n child But Dut still It cleaves Limo Iho air It Il docs does not sink It Jt floats above us and It obeys time the helm It navigates the air And Antl humanity cannot tt tear r Itt Its yes eyes loose from Crom It Time thousands of or yellow and amid brains brahms all 11 over the time worM world will think and anti ponder pon helm der and try tn and experiment anti and Im Improve Im- Im prove prove until the time toy has hat become something some some- timing thing more und and time the balloon has hns become the time ferry of tho time airAn air An And some da lay day the time air all shall have lJ been cn conquered a as were time thc land anc amid sea sect Hilt Bul Hil he ime who has soon seen what whal Robert Hobert Fulton accomplished gets ll 11 dizzy at time the thought o of what a Zeppelin ma may accomplish r i t Yow what u it century ut Is 11 to COlle Our OU thought Is powerless to lo fathom it it- it 1 AVe V aro iLVO only standing upon lon tho time threshold in hum front of an amm opened door Into an aim immense space saco dim and ob ob- ob Hut But he lie who lays days ago saw time the giant whale rise and sink turn am anti glide far tar above c alo the tin obe obey obey- ing Ins its master ho imo has imas las lived l cl through aimI an aim I Important hour hot The TIme magnitude of ot what Is too close we are ale never lIever able ahle to measure The re results Ie- Ie re- re suits Mulls of what is really T an ami event C wo we are arc unable tunable to l e predict let But one timing tiling Is S I sure Vie We c. whom It Il was waR given rhen to loot 1001 Into Int IntI the blue lIlue air above e when tho timo airship victorious cleaved time tho waves of or the time aire air all we e we saw tho time New Thai Thal which In Is to tu come was above c abo our ou heads And h he ime the tue boy bo- of IS IS ho he before whom Is a a. lUl lung life Ifo full fail of hopes hOes from fromn his imis throat It burst like a song soni of oC victory victory vic vic- tory And Amid what a a century that Is to come See Sec the Lime airship |