Speaking of Rocks 



cho have fallen, but they built sewers 

 and aqueducts better in the days of 

 Claudius Maximus than we do under 

 Gompers. No, they had no ocean 

 cables nor any form of fast transporta- 

 tion by land, sea or air. They thought 

 it enough to concentrate their energies 

 upon the highest possible development 

 of their own home-lands, and not dis- 

 sipate energy as we do in scattering our 

 interests and activities all over the 

 habitable globe. Greece was all the 

 world to the Greeks, and Rome and 

 Carthage only fell after vainly attempt- 

 ing to extend themselves too far. At 

 least that is what I am told by my 

 marble fragments every time I handle 

 them. 



The earth is nothing more or less 

 than a great big rock surfaced with a 

 little of its own disintegrated sub- 

 stance and decayed animal and vege- 

 table matter, and populated now, as 

 aeons ago, by certain self-satisfied in- 

 sects, reptiles, birds, "bipeds without 

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