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Rh milliards of mechanical slaves. Unrestricted, free and consummated in man. And maybe more than man.

Super-man?

Yes. Oh, only to have a hundred years of time! Another hundred years for the future of mankind.

[Sotto voce]: Carried forward, four hundred and twenty millions.

[The music stops.]

What a fine thing music is! We ought to have gone in for that before.

Gone in for what?

Beauty, lovely things. What a lot of lovely things there are! The world was wonderful and we—we here—tell me, what enjoyment did we have?

[Sotto voce]: Five hundred and twenty millions.