There Has Been No Discovery Like It

On Our Plane Knowledge And Ignorance Are The Immemorial Adversaries.

Nature Is In Austere Mood, Even Terrifying, Withal Majestically Beautiful.

Some Of The Beliefs And Legends Bequethed To Us By Antquity Are So Universally And Firmly Established That We Have Become Accustomed To Consider Them As Being Almost As Ancient As Humanity Itself. Nevertheless We Are Tempted To Inquire How Far The Fact That Some Of These Beliefs And Legends Have So Many Features In Common Is Due To Chance, And Wether The Similarity Between Them May Not Point To The Exestience Of An Ancient, Totally Unknown And Unsuspected Civilization Of Which All Other Traces Have Disappeared.

In So Far As Such Developments Utilise The Natural Energy Running To Waste, As In Water Power, They May Be Accounted As Pure Gain. But In So Far As They Consume The Fuel Resources Of The Globe They Are Very Different. The One Is Like Spending The Interest On A Legacy, And The Other Is Like Spending The Legacy Itself. ... [there Is] A Still Hardly Recognised Coming Energy Problem.

The Pure Air And Dazzling Snow Belong To Things Beyond The Reach Of All Personal Feeling, Almost Beyond The Reach Of Life.