Synopsis
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Prologue WE who live in this Golden A ge never tire of comparing our happy lot with the backward condition of our forefathers. We need not go further back than the beginning of the century now closing to see the striking contrast between our powers over nature and theirs. Did we not have historical evidence of the fact, it would be scarcely credible to the rising generation that nearly half of this century had elapsed before such a thing as a mote was known or even imagined; before the words etherine and therm were found in any dictionary. We can hardly imagine what a dull life even the greatest and most powerful men must have lived. President Reed never took a spin round the world. He never saw the Antarctic glacier, or even knew of its existence. He never set foot upon the North Pole. He never looked down on the clouds from the window of a himote.
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