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Speaker 1: Section five The Story of Atlantis by William Scott Elliott.
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Speaker 1: The sliprivox recording is in the public domain. The Story
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Speaker 1: of Atlantis, Part five.
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Speaker 2: Education.
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Speaker 1: A few words on the subject of language will fitly
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Speaker 1: prelude the consideration of the training in the schools and
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Speaker 1: colleges of Atlantis. During the First Map period, Toltec was
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Speaker 1: the universal language, not only throughout the continent, but in
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Speaker 1: the Western Irelands and that part of the Eastern continent
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Speaker 1: which recognized the Emperor's rule.
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Speaker 2: Remains of their more hull and.
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Speaker 1: Clavati speech survived, it is true in out of the
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Speaker 1: way parts, just as the Celtic and Comeric speech survives
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Speaker 1: to day among us in Ireland and Wales. The Lavatlei
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Speaker 1: tongue was the basis used by the Turranians, who introduced
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Speaker 1: such modifications that an entirely different language was in time produced,
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Speaker 1: while the Semites and Acadians, adopting a taute ground work,
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Speaker 1: modified it in their respective ways and so produced two
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Speaker 1: divergent varieties. Thus, in the later days of Poseidonis there
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Speaker 1: were several entirely different languages, all however, belonging to the
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Speaker 1: agglutinative type, for it was not till fifth Race days
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Speaker 1: that the descendants of the Sea Miites and Acadians developed
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Speaker 1: inflectional speech. All through the ages, however, the Taultic language
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Speaker 1: fairly maintained its purity, and the same tongue that was
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Speaker 1: spoken in Atlantis in the days of its splendor was
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Speaker 1: used with but slight alteration thousands of years later in
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Speaker 1: Mexico and Peru. The schools and colleges of Atlantis in
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Speaker 1: the Great Tultic days, as well as in subsequent eras
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Speaker 1: of culture, were all endowed by the state. Though every
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Speaker 1: child was required to pass through the primary schools, the
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Speaker 1: subsequent training differed very widely. The primary schools formed a
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Speaker 1: sort of winnowing ground. Those who showed real altitude for
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Speaker 1: study were, along with the children of the dominant classes,
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Speaker 1: who naturally had greater abilities, drafted into the higher schools
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Speaker 1: at about the age of twelve. Reading and writing, which
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Speaker 1: were regarded as mere preliminaries, had already been taught them
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Speaker 1: in the primary schools, but reading and writing were not
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Speaker 1: considered necessary for the great masses of the inhabitants, who
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Speaker 1: had to spend their lives in tilling the land or
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Speaker 1: in handicrafts. The practice of which was required by the community.
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Speaker 1: The great majority of the children therefore where at once
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Speaker 1: passed on to the technical schools best suited to their
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Speaker 1: various abilities. Chief among these were the agricultural schools. Some
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Speaker 1: branches of mechanics also formed part of the training, while
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Speaker 1: in outlining districts and by the sea side, hunting and
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Speaker 1: fishing were naturally included, and so the children all received
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Speaker 1: the education or training which was most appropriate for them.
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Speaker 1: The children of superior abilities, who as we have seen,
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Speaker 1: had been taught to read and write, had a much
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Speaker 1: more elaborate education. The properties of plants and their healing
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Speaker 1: qualities formed an important branch of study. There were no
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Speaker 1: recognized physicians in those days. Every educated man knew more
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Speaker 1: or less of medicine, as well as of magnetic healing. Chemistry, mathematics,
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Speaker 1: and astronomy were also taught. The training in such studies
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Speaker 1: finds its analogy among ourselves. But the object towards which
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Speaker 1: the teacher's efforts were mainly directed was a development of
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Speaker 1: the pupils psychic faculties and his instruction in the more
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Speaker 1: hidden forces of nature. The occult properties of plants, metals,
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Speaker 1: and precious stones, as well as the alchemical processes of transmutation,
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Speaker 1: were included in this category. That as time went on,
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Speaker 1: it became more and more the personal power which Ball
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Speaker 1: were light on calls of real and the operation of
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Speaker 1: which he has fairly accurately described in his Coming Race,
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Speaker 1: that the colleges for the higher training of the youth
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Speaker 1: of Atlantis were especially occupied in developing. The marked change
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Speaker 1: which took place on the decadence of the Race setting
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Speaker 1: was that instead of merit and aptitude being regarded as
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Speaker 1: warrants for advancement to the higher grades of instruction, the
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Speaker 1: dominant classes, becoming more and more exclusive, allowed none but
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Speaker 1: their own children to graduate in the higher knowledge, which
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Speaker 1: gave so much power. In such an empire as the Toltec,
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Speaker 1: agriculture naturally received much attention. Not only were the laborers
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Speaker 1: taught their duties in technical schools, but colleges were established
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Speaker 1: in which the knowledge necessary for carrying out experiments in
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Speaker 1: the crossing both of animals and plants was taught to
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Speaker 1: feeding students. As readers of Theosophic literature may know, wheat
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Speaker 1: was not evolved on this planet at all.
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Speaker 2: It was the gift of the Manu, who.
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Speaker 1: Brought it from another globe outside our chain of worlds.
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Speaker 1: But oats and some of our other cereals are the
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Speaker 1: results of crosses between wheat and the indigenous grasses of
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Speaker 1: the Earth. Now, the experiments which gave these results were
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Speaker 1: carried out in the agricultural schools of Atlantis. Of course,
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Speaker 1: such experiments were guided by high knowledge. But the most
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Speaker 1: notable achievement to be recorded of the Atlantic agriculturists was
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Speaker 1: the evolution of the plantain or banana. In the original
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Speaker 1: wild state, it was like an elongated melon, with scarcely
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Speaker 1: any pulp, but full of seeds as the melonese. It was,
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Speaker 1: of course, only by centuries, even not thousands of years
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Speaker 1: of continuous selection and elimination, that the present seedless plant
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Speaker 1: was evolved. Among the domesticated animals of the Taultic days
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Speaker 1: were creatures that looked like very small tapers. They naturally
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Speaker 1: fed upon roots or herbage, but like the peaks of
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Speaker 1: to day, which they resembled in more than one particular,
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Speaker 1: they were not over cleanly and ate whatever came in
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Speaker 1: their way, large cut like animals, and the woof like
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Speaker 1: ancestors of the dog. But also been met about human
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Speaker 1: habitations that tltac carts appeared to have been drawn by
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Speaker 1: creatures somewhat resembling small camels. The Peruvian lamas of to
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Speaker 1: day are probably their descendants. The ancestors of the Irish elk, too,
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Speaker 1: roamed in heads about the hillsides in much the same
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Speaker 1: way as our highland cuttle do, now too wild to
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Speaker 1: allow a busy approach, but still under the control of man.
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Speaker 1: Constant experiments were made in breeding and cross breeding different
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Speaker 1: kinds of animals, and curious, though it may seem to us,
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Speaker 1: artificial heat was largely used to force their development, so
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Speaker 1: that the results of crossing and interbreeding might be more
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Speaker 1: quickly apparent. The use too, of different colored lights in
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Speaker 1: the chambers where such experiments were carried on were adopted
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Speaker 1: in order to obtain varying results.
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Speaker 2: This control and.
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Speaker 1: Molding at will by man of the animal forms brings
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Speaker 1: us to a rather startling and very mysterious subject. Reference
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Speaker 1: has been made aboveter.
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Speaker 2: The work done by the manus.
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Speaker 1: Now it is in the mind of the manu that
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Speaker 1: originates all improvements in type and the potentialities latent in
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Speaker 1: every form of being. In order to work out in
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Speaker 1: detail the improvements in the animal forms the help and
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Speaker 1: co operation of man, we required. Libebian and reptile forms,
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Speaker 1: which then abounded, had about round their course, and were
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Speaker 1: ready to assume the more advanced type of bird or mamal.
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Speaker 1: These forms constituted the inco ate material placed at man's disposal,
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Speaker 1: and the clay was ready to assume whatever shape the
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Speaker 1: potter's hand might mold it into. It was specially with
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Speaker 1: animals in the intermediate stage that so many of the
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Speaker 1: experiments above referred to were tried, And doubtless the domesticated
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Speaker 1: animals like the horse, which are now of such service
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Speaker 1: to man, are the result of these experiments, in which
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Speaker 1: the men of those days acted in cooperation with the
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Speaker 1: Manu and his ministers. But the cooperation was too soon withdrawn,
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Speaker 1: selfishness obtained the upper hand, and war in discord brought
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Speaker 1: the golden age of the Toltecs to a close, when,
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Speaker 1: instead of working loyally for a common end under the
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Speaker 1: guidance of their initiate kings, men began to prey upon
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Speaker 1: each other. The bists, which might gradually have assumed under
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Speaker 1: the care of man, more and more useful in domesticated forms,
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Speaker 1: being left to the guidance of their own instincts, naturally
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Speaker 1: followed the example of their monarch and began to prey
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Speaker 1: upon each other. Some indeed had actually already been trained
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Speaker 1: and used by men in their hunting expeditions, and thus
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Speaker 1: the semi domesticated cat like animals above referred to naturally
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Speaker 1: became the ancestors of the leopads and jaguars. One illustration
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Speaker 1: of what some may be tempted to call a fantastic theory,
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Speaker 1: though it may not elucidate the problem, will at least
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Speaker 1: point the moral contained in this supplement to our knowledge
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Speaker 1: regarding the mysterious manner in which our revolution has proceeded.
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Speaker 1: The lion, it would appear, might have had a gentler nature,
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Speaker 1: and the less fierce suspect had the men of those
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Speaker 1: days completed the task that was given them to perform.
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Speaker 1: Whether or not his fate is eventually to lie downe
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Speaker 1: with a lamb and eat straw like the ox, the
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Speaker 1: destiny in store for him, as pictured in the mind
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Speaker 1: of the Manu, has not yet been realized. For the
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Speaker 1: picture was that of a powerful but domesticated animal, a strong,
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Speaker 1: level backed creature with large, intelligent eyes, intended to act
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Speaker 1: as one's most powerful servant for purposes of truction.
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Speaker 2: The city of the.
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Speaker 1: Golden Gates and its surroundings must be described before we
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Speaker 1: come to consider the marvelous system by which its inhabitants
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Speaker 1: were supplied with water. It lay, as we have seen,
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Speaker 1: on the east coast of the continent, close to the
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Speaker 1: sea and about fifteen degrees north of the equator. A
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Speaker 1: beautifully wooded park like country surrounded the city. Scattered over
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Speaker 1: a large area of these were the villa residences of
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Speaker 1: the wealthier classes. To the west lay range of mountains
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Speaker 1: from which the water supply of the city was drawn.
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Speaker 1: The ceay itself was built on the slopes of a
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Speaker 1: hill which rose from the plain about five hundred feet.
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Speaker 1: On the summit of this hill lay the Emperor's palace
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Speaker 1: and gardens, in the center of which welled up from
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Speaker 1: the earth a never ending stream of water, supplying first
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Speaker 1: the palace and the fountains in the gardens, thence flowing
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Speaker 1: in the four directions and falling in cascades into a
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Speaker 1: canal or remote, which encompassed the palace grounds and thus
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Speaker 1: separated them from the city.
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Speaker 2: Which lay below. On every side.
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Speaker 1: From this canal, four channels led the water through four
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Speaker 1: quarters of the city to cascades, which in their turn
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Speaker 1: supplied another encircling canal.
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Speaker 2: At a lower level.
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Speaker 1: There were three such canals, forming concentric circles, the outermost
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Speaker 1: and lowest of which was still above the level of
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Speaker 1: the plain. A fourth canal at this lowest level, but
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Speaker 1: on the rectangral plain, received the constantly flowing waters and
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Speaker 1: in its stern discharged them into the sea. The city
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Speaker 1: extended over part of the plain up to the edge
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Speaker 1: of this great outermost moat, which surrounded and defended it
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Speaker 1: with a line of waterways extending about twelve miles by
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Speaker 1: ten miles square. It will thus be seen that the
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Speaker 1: city was divided into three great belts, each hemmed in
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Speaker 1: by its canals. The characteristic feature of the upper belt,
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Speaker 1: that lay just below the palace grounds, was a circular
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Speaker 1: race cause and large public gardens.
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Speaker 2: Most of the houses of the court officials.
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Speaker 1: Also lay on this belt, and here also was an
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Speaker 1: institution of which we have no parallel in modern times.
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Speaker 1: The term stranger's home amongst us suggests a mean appearance
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Speaker 1: and sordid surroundings, but this was the palace where all
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Speaker 1: strangers who might come to the city were entertained as
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Speaker 1: long as they might choose to stay, being treated all
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Speaker 1: the time as guests of the government. The detached houses
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Speaker 1: of the inhabitants, and the various temples scattered throughout the
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Speaker 1: city occupied.
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Speaker 2: The other two belts. In the days of the Tolder Greatness.
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Speaker 1: There seems to have been no real poverty, even the
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Speaker 1: retinue of slaves attached to most houses being well fed
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Speaker 1: and clothed, But there were a number of comparatively poor
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Speaker 1: houses in the lowest belt to the north, as well
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Speaker 1: as outside the uttermost canal towards the sea. The inhabitants
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Speaker 1: of this part were mostly connected with the sheeping, and
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Speaker 1: their houses, though detached, were built closer together than in
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Speaker 1: other districts. It will be seen from the above that
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Speaker 1: the inhabitants had thus a never failing supply of pure
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Speaker 1: clear water constantly coursing through the city, while the upper
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Speaker 1: belts and the Emperor's palace were protected by lines of moats,
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Speaker 1: each one at a higher level as the center was approached.
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Speaker 1: Now it does not require much mechanical knowledge in order
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Speaker 1: to realize how stupendous must have been the works needed
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Speaker 1: to provide this supply for in the days of its greatness,
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Speaker 1: the city of the Golden Gates embraced within its four
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Speaker 1: circles of moats, over two million inhabitants.
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Speaker 2: No such system of water supply.
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Speaker 1: Has ever been attempted in Greek, Roman, or modern times. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: it is very doubtful whether our ablest engineers, even at the.
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Speaker 2: Expenditure of auntold wealth, could produce such a result.
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Speaker 1: A description of some of its leading features will be
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Speaker 1: of interest. It was from a lake which lay among
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Speaker 1: the mountains to the west of the city, at an
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Speaker 1: elevation of about two thousand, six hundred feet, that the
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Speaker 1: supply was drawn. The main aqueduct, which was of oval
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Speaker 1: section measuring fifty feet by thirty feet, led underground to
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Speaker 1: an enormous, hard shaped reservoir. This lay deep below the palace,
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Speaker 1: in fact, at the very base of the hill on
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Speaker 1: which the palace and the city stood. From this reservoir,
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Speaker 1: a perpendicular shaft of about five hundred feet up through
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Speaker 1: the solid rock gave passage to the water, which welled
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Speaker 1: up in the palace grounds and thence was distributed throughout
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Speaker 1: the city. Various pipes from the central reservoir also led
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Speaker 1: to different parts of the city to supply drinking water
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Speaker 1: and the public fountains. Systems of sluices, of course, also
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Speaker 1: existed to control or cut off the supply of the
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Speaker 1: different districts. From the above, it will be apparent to
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Speaker 1: anyone possessed of some little knowledge of mechanics, that the
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Speaker 1: pressure in the subterranean aqueduct and the central reservoir from
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Speaker 1: which the water naturally rose to the basin in the
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Speaker 1: palace gardens must have been enormous, and the resisting power
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Speaker 1: of the material used in their construction consequently prodigious. If
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Speaker 1: the system of water supply in the City of the
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Speaker 1: Golden Gates was wonderful, the Atlantan methods of locomotion must
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Speaker 1: be recognized as still more marvelous. For the airship or
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Speaker 1: flying machine which Keilely in America and Maxim in this
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Speaker 1: country are now attempting to produce, was then.
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Speaker 2: A realized fact.
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Speaker 1: It was not at any time a common means of transport.
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Speaker 1: The slaves, the servants, and the masses who labored with
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Speaker 1: their hands had to trudge along the country tracks or
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Speaker 1: travel in rude carts with solid wheels drawn by uncouth animals.
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Speaker 1: The airboats may be considered as the private carriages of
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Speaker 1: those days, or rather the private yachts, if we regard
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Speaker 1: the relative number of those who possessed them, for they
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Speaker 1: must have been at all times.
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Speaker 2: Difficult and costly to produce.
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Speaker 1: They were, not, as a rule, built to accommodate many persons.
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Speaker 1: Numbers were constructed for only two, some allowed for six
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Speaker 1: or eight passengers. In the later days, when war and
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Speaker 1: strife had brought the Golden Age to an end, battleships
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Speaker 1: that could navigate the air had, to a great extent
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Speaker 1: replaced the battleships at sea, having naturally proved far more
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Speaker 1: powerful engines of destruction. These were constructed to carry as
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Speaker 1: many as fifty and in some cases even up to.
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Speaker 2: A hundred fighting men. The material of.
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Speaker 1: Which the air boats were constructed was either wood or metal.
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Speaker 1: The earlier ones were built of wood, the boards used
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Speaker 1: being exceedingly thin, but the injection of some absence, which
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Speaker 1: did not add materially to the weight, while it gave
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Speaker 1: leather like toughness, provided the necessary combination of lightness and strength.
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Speaker 2: When metal was used, it was.
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Speaker 1: Generally an alloy two white colored metals and one red
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Speaker 1: one entering into its composition. The resultant was white colored
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Speaker 1: like aluminium, and even lighter in weight. Of the rough
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Speaker 1: framework of the air boat was extended a large sheet
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Speaker 1: of this metal, which was then beaten into shape and
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Speaker 1: electrically welded where necessary. But whether built of metal or wood,
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Speaker 1: their outside surface was apparently seamless and perfectly smooth, and
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Speaker 1: they shone in the dark as if coated with luminous paint.
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Speaker 1: In shape, they were boat like, but they were invariably
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Speaker 1: decked over, for when at full speed, it could not
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Speaker 1: have been convenient, even if safe, for any on board
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Speaker 1: to remain on the upper deck. Their propelling and steering
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Speaker 1: gear could be brought into use at either end, but
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Speaker 1: they all interesting question is that relating to the power
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Speaker 1: by which they were propelled. In the earlier times, it
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Speaker 1: seems to have impersonal brill that supplied the motive power.
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Speaker 1: What they used in conjunction with any mechanical contrivance matters
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Speaker 1: not match. But in the later days this was replaced
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Speaker 1: by a force which, though generated in what is to
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Speaker 1: us an unknown manner, operated nevertheless through definite mechanical arrangements.
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Speaker 1: These force, though not yet discovered by science, more nearly
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Speaker 1: approached that which Keyle in America is learning to handle
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Speaker 1: than the electric power used by maxim. It was in
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Speaker 1: fact of an etheric nature. But though we are none
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Speaker 1: nearer to the solution of this problem, its method of
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Speaker 1: operation can be described. The mechanical arrangements, no doubt, differed
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Speaker 1: somewhat in different vessels. The following description is taken from
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Speaker 1: an airboat in which, on one occasion, three ambassadors from
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Speaker 1: the king who ruled over the northern part of Poseidonis,
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Speaker 1: made the journey to the court of the southern kingdom.
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Speaker 1: A strong, heavy matas chest, which lay in the center
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Speaker 1: of the boat, was a generator. Thence, the force flowed
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Speaker 1: through two large flexible tubes to either end of the vessel,
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Speaker 1: as well as through eight subsidiary tubes fixed fore and
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Speaker 1: aft to the bulwarks. These had stuble openings pointing vertically
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Speaker 1: both up and down. When the journey was about to begin,
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Speaker 1: the valves of the eight bulwark tubes, which pointed downwards,
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Speaker 1: were opened, all the other valves being closed.
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Speaker 2: The current rushing through this impinct on the.
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Speaker 1: Earth with such force as to drive the boat upwards,
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Speaker 1: while the air itself continued to supply the necessary folk room.
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Speaker 2: When a sufficient.
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Speaker 1: Elevation was reached, the flexible tube at that end of
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Speaker 1: the vessel, which pointed away from the desired destination, was
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Speaker 1: brought into action, while by the partial closing of the
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Speaker 1: valves the current rushing through the eight vertical tubes was
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Speaker 1: reduced to the small amount required to maintain the elevation reached.
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Speaker 1: The great volume of cars, and being now directed through
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Speaker 1: the large tube pointing downwards from the stern at an
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Speaker 1: angle of about forty five degrees. While helping to maintain
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Speaker 1: the elevation, provided also the great motive power to propel
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Speaker 1: the vessel through the air. The steering was accomplished by
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Speaker 1: the discharge of the current through this tube. For the
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Speaker 1: slightest change in its direction at once caused an alteration
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Speaker 1: in the vessel's course, but constant.
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Speaker 2: Supervision was not required.
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Speaker 1: When a long journey had to be taken, the tube
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Speaker 1: could be fixed so as to need no handlingk till
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Speaker 1: the destination was almost reached. The maximum speed attained was
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Speaker 1: about one hundred miles an hour, the course of flight
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Speaker 1: never being a straight line, but always in the form
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Speaker 1: of long waves now approaching and now receding from the Earth.
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Speaker 1: The elevation at which the vessels traveled was only a
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Speaker 1: few hundred feet. Indeed, when high mountains lay in the
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Speaker 1: line of the truck, it was necessary to change their
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Speaker 1: course and go round them. The more rarefied air no
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Speaker 1: longer supplying the necessary room. Hills of about one thousand
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Speaker 1: feet were the highest they could cross. The means by
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Speaker 1: which the vessel was brought to a stop on reaching
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Speaker 1: its destination, and this could be done equally well in
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Speaker 1: mid air, was to give escape to some of the
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Speaker 1: current force through the tube at that end of the boat,
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Speaker 1: which pointed towards its destination, and the current impinging on
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Speaker 1: the land or air in front acted as a drug,
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Speaker 1: while the propelling force behind was gradually reduced by the
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Speaker 1: closing of the valve. The reason has still to be
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Speaker 1: given for the existence of the eight tubes boiling upwards
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Speaker 1: from the bulwarks. These had more especially to do with
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Speaker 1: the aerial warfare. Having so powerful a force at their disposal,
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Speaker 1: the warships naturally directed the current against each other. Now
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Speaker 1: this was up to destroy the equilibrium of the ship
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Speaker 1: so struck, and to turn it upside down, a situation
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Speaker 1: sure to be taken advantage of by the enemy's vessel.
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Speaker 1: To make an attack with her arm.
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Speaker 2: There was also the further.
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Speaker 1: Danger of being precipitated to the ground unless the shutting
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Speaker 1: and opening of the necessary valves were quickly attended to.
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Speaker 1: In whatever position the vessel might be, the tubes pointing
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Speaker 1: downwards the earth were naturally those through which the currents
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Speaker 1: should be rushing, while the tubes pointing.
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Speaker 2: Upwards should be closed.
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Speaker 1: The means by which a vessel turned upside down might
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Speaker 1: be righted and placed again on a level keel was
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Speaker 1: accomplished by using the four tubes pointing downwards at one
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Speaker 1: side of the vessel only, while the four at the
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Speaker 1: other side were kept closed. The Atlanteans had also sea
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Speaker 1: going vessels, which were propelled by some power analogous to
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Speaker 1: that above mentioned, but the current force, which was eventually
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Speaker 1: found to be most effective in this case, had a
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Speaker 1: denser appearance than that used in the air boats.
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Speaker 2: End of Section five