"At any moment in some quiet laboratory," he remarks, may be revealed a se.ret of Nature which will transform all the conditions of man's being, and so visibly divide past from future that later generations may say, At. this point human history Was bisected, ant our day began." Mr. Wyatt comments that while this prodigio potentiality is known to exist matter, no effort to form some general conception of the results expected appears to have yet been made.
Yet these results "beggar agitation and transcend ex. perience." Coalfields and oil wells will become superfluities, and all conditions of transport will be revolutionized. "A motive power-—enormous, illimitable and costing nothing save for such apparatus may be required—will be placed at the service of an astonished world."
Presumably the chosen mode of movement will be through the air and "there speeds will naturally be reached exceeding any present thought of possibility, and the practical limitation will be marked only by the point at which swiftness of movement causes combustion Yet even in this respot finality may be thrust far off, for with boundless enctgy at command tecting envelope of _invisibie may be interposed, as in the ers, between the surrounding nin and the vehicles racing through Mr. Wyatt adds: "Those vehicles we must conceive, not as, aeroplanes, which will be obsolete as pack horses, but as eaid nages built for the conveyance of passengers or of goods in whatever shape expediency or lasury dicta-tos. h little reference economy of size or weight." Ships huge as the Imperator, carriages the humblest " motor-car, will alike be able to inhabit the thronged spaces of the air.
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