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 As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free

(See pages 174, 268, 578, 726)

Beautiful World of new, superber Birth, that rises to my eyes, Like a limitless golden cloud, filling the western sky Thou Wonder World, yet undefined, unformed—neither do I define thee; How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of the future? I feel thy ominous greatness, evil as well as good; I watch thee, advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past; I see thy light lighting and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe; But I do not undertake to define thee—hardly to comprehend thee; I but thee name—thee prophesy—as now!

The Kingdom of Man

(English scientist, professor in the University of London, born 1847)

The new knowledge of Cature, the newly-ascertained capacity of man for a control of Nature so thorough as to be almost unlimited, has not as yet had an opportunity of showing what it can do. No power has called on man to arise and enter upon the possession of this kingdom—the "Kingdom of Man" foreseen by Francis