, 1922-11-29
LTHE first conhrmatory evil
dence Ct the thing. Ex-
ceiiency. was the print
OF a woman's sre foot

ENAATAAM VIE NAE NAAAs
OF a woman's bare foot
He was an immense
creature. He sat In an upright chair
that seemed 10 have been provided
especially for him. The great bulk OF
him flowed out and filed the chair.
II did not seem to b fat that en-
veloped him. II seemed rather TO be
some Soft. tough fiber. like the pudsy
mass making Up the body OF a deep
sea thing. One set an Impression
OF strength.
The country Was before the open.
window: the clusters Of cultivated
shrub on the sweep OF velvet lawn
extending to the great wall that In
closed the place. then the bend q
the river and beyond. the distant
mountains. blue and mysterious.
blending indiseernibly into the sky.
A soft sun. clouded with the haze OF
autumn, shone over IL
You know how the faint moisture
in the bare foot win make an i'm
preston"
He paused as though there vas
some compelling force in the reflec-
ton. It was impossible TO say. with
accuracy. 20 what race the man be
ionged. He came from some queer
blend Of Eastern peoples, Ills body
and the cast Of his features were
Monaghan. But one got always. be-
fore him. a feeling Of the hot East
lying low down against the ~stagnant
Suaz- One felt that he had risen
slowly Into our world OF hard air
and u out OF the vast sweitering
ooze CT It.
He spoke English with a certain
care in h selection of the words,
but with ease.
II Is necessary 20 try TO under
stand this. because It explains the
conception everybody got OF the
creature. when they saw him in
charge of Rodaian. I am using pre-
cisely the descriptive words: he was
exclusively in charge OF Rodman. as
a Jim in an Arabian tale might have
been in charge OF a kings son.
The creature was servile-with
almost a groveling serv.lity. But one
felt that this servility resulted from
something potent and secret one
looked to SEQ Rodnan take Solomon's
ring out of his waistcoat pocket.
! suppose there is no longer any
doubt about the fact that Rodman
was one of those gigantic human
i-ntelligences who sometimes appear
in the world: and by their immense
conceptions dwarf all human knowl-
edge-a sort of mental monster that
we feel nature has no right to pro
duce. Lord Bayless Truxley said
that Rodman was four generations
in advance Of the time; and Lord
Bayless Truxley beyond dues-
ton, the greatest authority on syn
thetic chemistry turned toward him.
The brochure startled the world.
II proposed to adapt the luster and
beauty of Jewels to commercial uses.
We were being content with crude
initiation colors in our commercial
glass. when we could quite as easily
have. the actual structure inc the
actual luster of tho jewel in it. We
were painfully hunting over the earth.
and in It's bowels. for n few crystals
and prettily-colored stones which we
boarded and treasured, when in a
manufacturing laboratory we could
easily produce them, more perfect
than nature. and in unlimited uan
tity.
Now. II you want to understand
what I am printing here about Rod
lItdI. YOU HluSN NAllIlk dDDul ltllS
thing as a scientific possibility and
no. as a fantastic notion. Take, for
example. Rodman's address before the
Sorbonne. or his report to the Inter
national Congress- of Science in Edin-
hurgh. End you will begin to see what
I mean. The Marchese Giovanni.
who was a delegate to that congress,
and P~astreaux. said that the only
Fhsn0 in the -n.r nf ~ actual sarar
teal realization of what Rodman out
lined was the formulate. If Rodman
could work out the formulae. jewel
stuff could be produced as cheaply as
glass, and in any quantity-by the
carload. Imagine it; sheet ruby. sheet
emerald, all the beauty and iuster of
Jewels in the windows OF the corner
Grugstorel
And there is another thing that I
want you to think about. Think
about the immense destruction of
vaue-not to us. so greatly. for our
stocks OF precious stones are not
large: but the thing meant. practical
". wiping out all the assembled
wealth OF Asia except the actual earth
n its structures.
Put the thing some other way and
consider it. Suppose we should sud
denly discover that pure gold could
be produced by treating common
yellow clay with sulphuric acid, or
that some genius SHOULD set up a
machine on the border of the Sahara
that received sand at one end and
turned out sacked wheat at the other,
What. then, would our boarded gold
be worth. or the wheat.lands of
Australia, Canada or our Northwest?
The Illustrations are fantastic. But
the thing Rodman was after was a
practical fact. He had it on the way.
Giovanni and Lord Bayless Truxley
were convinced that the man would
work out the formulae. They tried.
over their signatures. to prepare the
world for it.
The whole OF Asia was appalled,.
The rajahs of the native states in
India prepared a memorial and sent
IL 10 the British government.
The thing came out after the mys-
t%erious. incredible tragedy. I should
not have written that final sentence.
l want you to think. Just now. about
the great bulk of a man that sat in
his big chair beyond me at the win.