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The Coming Race

CHAPTER XX
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Learn that the connection between the will and the agencies of that fluid which has been subjected to the control of the Vril-ya was never established by the first discoverers, never achieved by a single generation; it has gone on increasing, like other properties of race, in proportion as it has been uniformly transmitted from parent to child, so that, at last, it has become an instinct; and an infant An of our race wills to fly as intuitively and unconsciously as he wills to walk.

He thus plies his invented or artificial wings with as much safety as a bird plies those with which it is born.

I did not think sufficiently of this when I allowed you to try an experiment which allured me, for I have longed to have in you a companion.

I shall abandon the experiment now.

Your life is becoming dear to me." Herewith the Gy's voice and face softened, and I felt more seriously alarmed than I had been in my previous flights.
Now that I am on the subject of wings, I ought not to omit mention of a custom among the Gy-ei which seems to me very pretty and tender in the sentiment it implies.


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