sunlight; but at that time nobody knew what Energon was, and Goliah
continued to awe and rule the world.

One of the uses of Energon was in wireless telegraphy. It was by its
means that Goliah was able to communicate with his agents all over the
world. At that time the apparatus required by an agent was so clumsy
that it could not be packed in anything less than a fair-sized steamer
trunk. To-day, thanks to the improvements of Hendsoll, the perfected
apparatus can be carried in a coat pocket.

It was in December, 1924, that Goliah sent out his famous "Christmas
Letter," part of the text of which is here given:

"So far, while I have kept the rest of the nations from each other's
throats, I have devoted myself particularly to the United States.
Now I have not given to the people of the United States a rational
social organization. What I have done has been to compel them to
make that organization themselves. There is more laughter in the
United States these days, and there is more sense. Food and shelter
are no longer obtained by the anarchistic methods of so-called
individualism but are now wellnigh automatic. And the beauty of it
is that the people of the United States have achieved all this for
themselves. I did not achieve it for them. I repeat, they achieved
it for themselves. All that I did was to put the fear of death in
the hearts of the few that sat in the high places and obstructed the
coming of rationality and laughter. The fear of death made those in
the high places get out of the way, that was all, and gave the
intelligence of man a chance to realize itself socially.

"In the year that is to come I shall devote myself to the rest of the
world. I shall put the fear of death in the hearts of all that sit
in the high places in all the nations. And they will do as they have
done in the United States--get down out of the high places and give
the intelligence of man a chance for social rationality. All the
nations shall tread the path the United States is now on.

"And when all the nations are well along on that path, I shall have
something else for them. But first they must travel that path for
themselves. They must demonstrate that the intelligence of mankind
to-day, with the mechanical energy now at its disposal, is capable of
organizing society so that food and shelter be made automatic,