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every one understands it thoroughly, it will stop by universal consent.
Did you ever read Bulwer's 'Coming Race'?"
"Yes," said Joe. "I always read those books. _Vril_, and that sort of
thing, you mean? Oh yes."
"Approximately," answered Vancouver. "It was an allegory, you know. A
hundred years hence people will write a book to explain what Bulwer meant.
_Vril_ stands for the cumulative power of potential science, of
course."
"I think Bulwer's word shorter, and a good deal easier to understand,"
said Joe, laughing.
"It is a great thing to be great," remarked Miss Schenectady. "Sarah, I
think you might bring us some tea, please, and ask John if he couldn't
stir the furnace a little. And then to have people explain you. Goethe
must be a good deal amused, I expect, when people write books to prove
that Byron was Euphorion." Miss Schenectady was fond of German literature,
and the extent of her reading was a constant surprise to her niece.
"What a lot of things you know, Aunt Zoe !" said Joe.


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