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Barbicane, having with a rapid gesture firmly fixed his hat on his head, continued his speech in a calm tone: "There is not one of you, brave colleagues, who has not seen the moon, or, at least, heard of It. Do not be astonished if I wish to speak to you about the Queen of Night. It is, perhaps, our lot to be the Columbuses of this unknown world.
And as for me, if I wuz to be made to tell at the pint of the sword what I thought wuz the very best and most glorious product of the World's Columbian Fair, I would say I thought it wuz these orations, and debates, by the brightest men and wimmen on earth, congregated at Columbuses doin's.
If Society were fitted up all through with electric connections, men with a genius for discovering continents in people, Columbuses, boy-geniuses; and if there were established everywhere a current between every boy and the great world, this would be something on which Mr. Carnegie could make a great beginning with the little mite of his fortune.
Ferdinand wuz a good creeter or that is, middlin' good; but his eye-sight wuzn't such as would see down clear through the truth of Columbuses theory.
"Oh no, I couldn't stop to listen to such wicked talk." That wuz jest like deacon Gansy; he thought he wuz awful religious but I always felt dubersome about it. But on we went through the matchless beauty of the drive. And anon we ketched a view of the blue tostin' waves of the Atlantic, the air jest as fresh and invigoratin' as when it blowed unto Columbuses weary foretop when he discovered us.
They have soared out of this room 60 by 80 feet couldn't confine 'em they have located all over the grounds horsepitals to care for them who are took sick here at Columbuses doin's, and, good creeters, I suppose they will have their hands full, specially in dog days.
Just as, before them, the impressionist painters had opened up a new world to the eyes, Christopher Columbuses of light, so the musicians were rushing on to the conquest of the world of Sound; they pressed on into mysterious recesses of the world of Hearing: they discovered new lands in that inward ocean. It was more than probable that they would do nothing with their conquests.
The pioneers ever since Adam, be it the Columbuses of early navigation or the Wrights of aerial navigation, have always taken the long chances. They are the ones who have suffered the hardships, and who, often enough, have been forgotten by the world in its mad rush along the trail they have opened. But they are the men who have done the big things.
You do not know what you have memorized, you know what you have vitalized, what you have written in the book of experience. Gussie says, "I have read it in a book." Bill Whackem says, "I know!" Reading and Knowing All of us are Christopher Columbuses, discovering the same new-old continents of Truth. That is the true happiness of life discovering Truth.
The relation on Columbuses side wuz a middlin' good-lookin' and a good-natered lookin' man, no taller than Josiah, with blue eyes, gray hair, and short whiskers. His wife wuz a good-lookin', plump woman, some younger apparently than he wuz, and the daughter wuz pretty and fresh-lookin' as a pink rose. I liked their looks first rate.
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