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ments and (he littleness of man s power in con
flict with the forces of nature.
But as a matter of fact, Mr. Dorgan’s picture
illustrates admirably man’s method of con
quering his enemies, and nature, and this
planet that we own.
Man's victories begin when he is willing to
die for victory.
And this flying man, stretched dead and cold
in the wreckage of his machine, is one of those
to whom the future will owe the conquest of
the air, and a life as far above ours in civiliza
tion, convenience, comfort and happiness as
the flying machine is above the slow, crawling
ox-cart on the plains.
As long as men merely talked and theorized
and speculated ON THE GROUND the air was
safe from the conquest of men.
But when man began to fly, when he rose
in the air that he meant to conquer, when he
proved his willingness to fly if he could and
to fall and be killed if he must—when (hat
happened and the fear of death no longer kept
men on the ground THE AIR WAS CON
QUERED FOR ALL TIME.
England was conquered and this country
was taken from the British when a sufficient
number of men were willing to back with their
lives their theory that men were created equal.
When the signers of the Declaration gathered
in Philadelphia in fly time and humorously
observed that they must hang together or hang
separately, and when they were WILLING TO
BE HANGED SEPARATELY IF NECESSARY
it was quite certain that this country had prac
tically achieved the conquest that would give
her independence.
And so it has been from thy beginning of
history, and long before history began. Each
noble thought and idea and protest had its de
fenders WILLING TO DIE. Many seemed to
die uselessly and hopelessly. Many never saw
the first dawn of the day for which they hoped
But all were worker-, and useful and needed,
AND CONQUERORS when once they had
conquered themselves and their love of life
for the sake of a high and noble aspiration.
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How many of us realize what a wonderful
empire it is that these conquerors of the air
are giving to the human race?
Man moves to-day in only one dimension.
He inhabits A SURFACE. To this surface he
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The Conquest of the Air
HE artist who made this picture
—a man as brilliant as any in
this country intended to il
lustrate the hopelessness of
man's combat against the ele-
77ie Flying Man Lies Dead—-His Machine Crumpled
and Ruined. He Will Fly No More.
But, None the Less, the Conquest ot the Air Is a
Reality.
Men CONQUER When They Are Willing to Run
Risks and to Die, if Necessary, for an Idea.
The Church Is Built Up by the Blood ot the Saints
and the Martyrs.
Tn.e Great' Achievements of the Human Race Are
F ased on the Courage and Deaths of Millions- - Soldiers,
Statesmen, Scientists, THINKERS AHEAD OF THEIR
TIME.
One After the Other the Aviators Fall to the Ground
in Their Machines as Singed Moths Flutter from the
Flame of the Candle.
But the Air HAS Been Conquered, and a Neu) Empire
HAS Been Given to Man.
must slick, with its roughness, its narrowness,
its bad roads, its collisions, its grade crossings,
its constant accidents, calamities and deaths
that equal every day and every hour more
than the total of the number of lives sacri
ficed thus far in the effort to conquer the air
In (hat new empire above us. what speed,
what delights, what health, comfort, conve
nience and economy of transportation await
us!
Thanks to those that give up their lives like
the man in this picture, we are within sight of
the day when all transportation, except for the
very shortest journeys and for the carrying of
the heaviest freight, will be done far above
the houses and the trees, andjnuch of it high
above the clouds.
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Up there THE ROADS ARE ALWAYS
READY, no paving, no broken rails, no flat
w heels, no head-on collisions.
The nervous old lady in her flying machine
will he able to turn out one mile or four miles
if she chooses when another machine comes
along. For she can dip two miles below it, or
two miles above it.
Cars going at a rate exceeding two hundred
and fifty miles an hour will probably be com
pelled io keep at a certain high altitude above
the ground. And slow-moving craft, those
that will prefer the old-fashioned one hundred
miles an hour, or even less, w ill keep close to
the ground. one er two ihou c \. feet above
the housetops.
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The very greatest ships of the air probably
will stay permanently some six miles above
the earth's surface WHERE THEBE ARE
ABSOLUTELY NO WINDS. EXCEPT A
GENTLE CONSTANT WIND GO T NG FROM
WEST TO EAST WITH THE EARTH'S MO
TION Smaller machines will take passengers
up to the big machines.
Six miles up there are no storms. Six miles
up everything is as quiet AS ONE MILE
DOWN IN THE OCEAN. No waves of water
dash against each other one mile below’ the
ocean’s surface. No waves of wind tossing
the airship when you get six miles above this
earth.
The great and imnortanl air vessels cross
ing the ocean or going all around the earth
will remain in the upper zone of quiet, travel
ling at a speed that will surely equal one thou
sand miles an hour eventually, permitting the
young that love light and color to live day
after day with the sun always straight above
them if they choose, and permitting the * ’ I
that ride into the air to study the stars AL
WAYS TO BE IN DARKNESS.
One of the sister planets that travel around
this sun with us is so fixed in her movements
that one-half of her surface is exposed always
to the sun. and one-half is always dark and
turned away from the sun. It is easy to im
agine on that planet the young people living
in the sunlight by choice, enjoying light and
heat and color and excitement and the older
and wiser beings living on the side of dark
ness, enjoying the universe outside of that
planet, thinking of the great future and the
greater world beyond the reach of the rays of
any little sun.
What the inhabitants of that queer planet
can do now we shall be able to do if we choose
when we have our flying machines going as
fast as the sun appears to go in his course
around the earth, able to keep the traveller
forever in the noonday or the midnight of this
earth.
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We shall have airships of metal, with high
power engines, lasting indefinitely. No man
can estimate the economies in transportation
when the conquest of the air shall have be
come absolute. No friction, no jar, no wear
and tear.
Power from the waterfalls, power trans
mitted without wires, power generated by the
tide or directly by the sun's heat will one day
carry human beings as cheaply as the Govern
ment mails now carry letters.
The human race will be free from the law
of gravitation, which ties us down to one spot
almost as effectually as the land turtle is tied
down to his field on the farm.
With the conquest of the air complete
every man that w ill. may know ALL THAT
THERE IS OF THIS GLORIOUS EARTH.
Millions and hundreds of millions of people
will know the planet that we inhabit as well
as they now' know' their own front or hack
yard.
Children, half grown will be familiar with
the great mountains of Asia, the wonderful
growths of the tropics, and the perpetual
snows of the North.
What will that mean to the intelligence ,l s
the future race, intimate nersonal acquaint*
ance with this great earth. 25,000 miles around
and with the clouds above it. and the wonder
and beauty of this earthly home?
The conquest of the air is near, a mighty
conquest, a great empire given to man.
And each flying man who flies and tries and
falls at last. AND DIES, is one of the con
querors of the new empire, one of the bene
factors of the race.