Some of the most distinguished men of science regarded the attempts which were then being made as hopeless.

It then seemed still to be a mere dream of poets.
Wireless telegraphy was only a matter of speculation, a thing which a few only thought of as a possibility of the future.

Man has indeed plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge for his own destruction.

What may be the result of another quarter of a century of like advancement of the knowledge of the means of spreading "death throughout the world and bitter woe"?
It may not be, as Dr.Murray Butler says, that the strongest man will remain alone in a depopulated world.

The strongest may succumb to the inventions for destruction and the survivors may be a few of those maimed or weakened by disease whom the storm has passed over as too obscure, of too little importance even for the messengers of Death to remember and to relieve from their misery.