The Enemy of Mankind 



that here was a chariot that would lift us 

 from the earth, on which we have been 

 condemned to crawl since we emerged 

 from the illimitable past, and take us up 

 to voyage among u the silver palaces built 

 about the horizon," and come closer to 

 the great Spirit of the Universe, " Whose 

 dwelling is the light of setting suns." 

 To mount and mount into the untrodden 

 spaces of the air till, looking back, the 

 far distant world, like an unsubstantial 

 pageant, fade and leave not a wrack 

 behind ! 



But these are but the chimeras of a man 

 of letters, for no sooner was the flying 

 machine invented than it was instantly 

 developed and perfected as an engine of 

 death and has been used by the Germans 

 with persistent malignity to murder women 

 and children, making it well-nigh impossible 

 to maintain that mankind on the whole 



