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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 136 | 120 LATEST MAGIC land, you will have some idea of the sort of job the Egyptian builders had to tackle.ยน Anyhow, the work was done, and as it is clear that it could not have been done by any known mechanical means, we are compelled to seek some other solu- tion of the problem. "I don't know whether any of you read novels. If you do, you must often have noticed the curious way in which fiction constantly anticipates fact. The novelist describes some utterly impossible thing, and a few years later some other fellow goes and does it. Jules Verne described a voyage under the sea long before the submarine was invented, and Mr. Wells wrote The War in the Air' while the aeroplane and the Zeppelin were still in their infancy. But there is one conception of the novelist which has not till now been made an accomplished fact. That is the force called 'Vril,' described by Lord Lytton in his novel, "The Coming Race.' He describes Vril as a sort of hyper-electricity capable in the hands of those who know how to gather and use it, of producing all sorts of wonders, even to removing mountains. Imprisoned in a wand and directed by a strong will, it will shrivel up an enemy or a wild beast as by a flash of lighting. "I have always had an idea that this must have been the force used by the Egyptians to build the 1 Before an American audience the names of any two well-known buildings in New York may be substituted. |