Their system is perfect, their lines of supply and communication are without a flaw.

The Prussian army machine of other days was but a bungling experiment by comparison with the efficiency of this new mechanism.

I tell you, Gabriel, we've got to give these tyrants credit for being infernally efficient tyrants! All that science has been able to devise, or press and church and university teach, or political subservience make possible, is theirs.

And back of that, military power, and the courts and the prisons and the electric chair! And back of all _those_, the power to choke the whole world to submission, in a week!" Gabriel thought, a moment, before replying.

Then said he: "I know it, Craig.