As Years Passed Away I Have Formed

A Few Years Later The Naval Academy Was Founded At Annapolis, And A Similar Course Was Pursued To Provide It With A Corps Of Instructors.

Construction Of An Aerial Vehicle Which Can Carry Even A Single Man . . . Requires The Discovery Of Some New Metal Or Force. Even With Such A Discovery, We Could Not Expect One To Do More Than Carry Its Owner.

If My Impressions Are Correct, Our Educational Planing Mill Cuts Down All The Knots Of Genius, And Reduces The Best Of The Men Who Go Through It To Much The Same Standard.

When About Fifteen I Once Made A Great Scandal By Taking Out My Knife In Prayer Meeting And Assaulting A Young Man Who, While I Was Kneeling Down During The Prayer, Stood Above Me And Squeezed My Neck.

The Mathematician Of To-day Admits That He Can Neither Square The Circle, Duplicate The Cube Or Trisect The Angle. May Not Our Mechanicians, In Like Manner, Be Ultimately Forced To Admit That Aerial Flight Is One Of That Great Class Of Problems With Which Men Can Never Cope... I Do Not Claim That This Is A Necessary Conclusion From Any Past Experience. But I Do Think That Success Must Await Progress Of A Different Kind From That Of Invention.