“You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?”

Source: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

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