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100 and have dominion over it. When Ged gave it to him He meant mankind no one class of men, but man. Thank Ged brains know no caste color, give a sane man A-B-C and it means X-Y-Z and these mean that it is in his province to run the whole gamut of science, philosophy and arts to the end. This twentieth century is a marvelous age and the things that have come to pass have astounded the most skeptical. Never would the most fastidious of past ages believe that such wonders as the wireless telegraphy, the submarine, the airship, the tunnelling of the Alps, the going under the great rivers, the cabling of the vast ocean, the phonograph, the dictaphone, the surgerical operation on the human heart, and numerous other scientific inventions which time will not allow us here.to mention, could have come to pass. If the builders of the sphinx and the hanger of the swinging gardens of Babylon and the constructor of the catacombs could come back to earth and visit New York or London they would cry out that Egypt, Ninevah, and the tower of Babel were but forerunners for a more scientific age, and mysteries yet unthought of, are still to be revealed.