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Let the story wreck itself on the spreading rails of the Non Sequitur Limited, if it will; first you must take your seat in the observation car "Raison d'Être" for one moment. It is for no longer than to consider a brief essay on the subject -- let us call it: "What's Around the Corner."
Omne mundus in duas partes divisum est -- men who wear rubbers and pay poll-taxes, and men who discover new continents. There are no more continents to discover; but by the time overshoes are out of date and the poll has developed into an income tax, the other half will be paralleling the canals of Mars with radium railways.