Next morning came a remarkable telegram from Folkestone. "Please come at once, urgent, Walshingham,"

There flowed through Bert's brain a squittering succession of thinly violent ideas about German competition.

Oh to be alone in a balloon at a height of fourteen or fifteen thousand feet.

“Fighting! The American North Atlantic squadron and pretty nearly the whole of our fleet."

And then above the flames of Manhattan Island came a battle, the first battle in the air.

The present outlook of human affairs is one that admits of broad generalizations and that seems to require broad generalizations.

“we overtake and pass the West. We recover the peace of the world that these barbarians have destroyed.”

In this paper, I want to tell you of the idea that now shapes and dominates my public life—the idea of a world politically united.

"I have shown the connexion between the present intense political troubles of the world and the advance in mechanical knowledge during the last 150 years."

I would like to discuss whether our education can include and ought to include such a Book of Necessary Knowledge and Wisdom.

"In the preceding sections we have discussed Genesis and the Historical Books generally as they would appear in a modernized Bible"

Was it better to risk a fall over land or over water—such water?

With that apparition began a new phase of Goat Island in Bert's experience.

"And now I am going on to a review of the broad facts of the educational organization of our present world."

And now the whole fabric of civilisation was bending and giving, and dropping to pieces and melting in the furnace of the war.

One bright summer's morning exactly 30 years after the launch of the first German air-fleet, an old man took a small boy to look for a missing

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