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created artificial sunshine for less-favoured lands, will, 

 a new cloud-compeller, unlock the treasures of the flocks 

 and herds of the sky for the benefit of the herds and 

 flocks of the Earth, and thus convert the drought- 

 stricken southern land into one copiously washed by 

 supernal rains as by subterranean waters. Thus the 

 physicist will become, as the engineer has already proved 

 himself to be, a true " maker of Australasia," Other 

 branches of science will contribute their quota. The 

 biologists have tracked the metamorphoses of the liver- 

 fluke, destroyer of sheep ; they will yet trace the microbe 

 that rots the hooves and the bacterium that produces 

 scab, and with the discovery of the poison there will 

 come, in time, the invention of its antidote. Man will 

 then be the master as well as the maker of Australasia. 



