thing else. The sum of human happiness had
increased enormously. The world had become gay and sane. Even the old
fogies of professors of sociology, who had opposed with might and main
the coming of the new regime, made no complaint. They were a score of
times better remunerated than in the old days, and they were not worked
nearly so hard. Besides, they were busy revising sociology and writing
new text-books on the subject. Here and there, it is true, there were
atavisms, men who yearned for the flesh-pots and cannibal-feasts of the
old alleged "individualism," creatures long of teeth and savage of claw
who wanted to prey upon their fellow-men; but they were looked upon as
diseased, and were treated in hospitals. A small remnant, however,
proved incurable, and was confined in asylums and denied marriage. Thus
there was no progeny to inherit their atavistic tendencies.

As the years went by, Goliah dropped out of the running of the world.
There was nothing for him to run. The world was running itself, and
doing it smoothly and beautifully. In 1937, Goliah made his
long-promised present of Energon to the world. He himself had devised a
thousand ways in which the little giant should do the work of the
world--all of which he made public at the same time. But instantly the
colleges of invention seized upon Energon and utilized it in a hundred
thousand additional ways. In fact, as Goliah confessed in his letter of
March 1938, the colleges of invention cleared up several puzzling
features of Energon that had baffled him during the preceding years.
With the introduction of the use of Energon the two-hour work-day was cut
down almost to nothing. As Goliah had predicted, work indeed became
play. And, so tremendous was man's productive capacity, due to Energon
and the rational social utilization of it, that the humblest citizen
enjoyed leisure and time and opportunity for an immensely greater
abundance of living than had the most favoured under the old anarchistic
system.

Nobody had ever seen Goliah, and all peoples began to clamour for their
saviour to appear. While the world did not minimize his discovery of
Energon, it was decided that greater than that was his wide social
vision. He was a superman, a scientific superman; and the curiosity of
the world to see him had become wellnigh unbearable. It was in 1941,
after much hesitancy on his part, that he finally emerged from Palgrave
Island. He arrived on June