"KNOWLEDGE IS POWER' 1 



proverb ever received more emphatic confirma- 

 tion than that given to the above during the 

 century just past. Whether the power be for 

 good or for evil, knowledge is its source. A 

 single modern battleship would be more than a match for 

 all the fleets in existence three hundred years ago. And 

 when we turn to the triumphs of peace we find ocean liners 

 that can brave any storm; while such well-known inven- 

 tions as railroads, telegraphs, telephones, fast printing 

 presses and others which have changed all our social con- 

 ditions, are all due to increased knowledge. 



A few pages back we quoted the saying of Archimedes: 

 "Give me a fulcrum and I will raise the world." There 

 is a modern saying which has become almost as famous 

 amongst English-speaking peoples as is that of Archimedes 

 to the world at large. It is that which Bulwer Lytton 

 puts into the mouth of Richelieu, in his well-known play 

 of that name: 



" Beneath the rule of men entirely great 

 THE PEN is MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD." 



About thirty years ago it occurred to the writer that 

 these two epigrammatic sayings that of Archimedes and 

 that of Bulwer Lytton might be symbolized in an alle- 

 gorical drawing which would forcibly express the ideas 

 which they contain, and the question immediately arose - 

 Where will Archimedes get his fulcrum and what can he 



use as a lever? 



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