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London, Jack, 1876-1916

"Revolution, and Other Essays"


Nobody had ever seen Goliah, and all peoples began to clamour for
their saviour to appear. While the world did not minimize his
discovery of Energon, it was decided that greater than that was his
wide social vision. He was a superman, a scientific superman; and
the curiosity of the world to see him had become wellnigh unbearable.
It was in 1941, after much hesitancy on his part, that he finally
emerged from Palgrave Island. He arrived on June 6 in San Francisco,
and for the first time, since his retirement to Palgrave Island, the
world looked upon his face. And the world was disappointed. Its
imagination had been touched. An heroic figure had been made out of
Goliah. He was the man, or the demi-god, rather, who had turned the
planet over. The deeds of Alexander, Caesar, Genghis Khan, and
Napoleon were as the play of babes alongside his colossal
achievements.
And ashore in San Francisco and through its streets stepped and rode
a little old man, sixty-five years of age, well preserved, with a
pink-and-white complexion and a bald spot on his head the size of an
apple.


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