reckless stubbornness. He saw behind both
the urge of the inevitable, unquenchable desire of human beings for
happiness; for the happiness that comes only when men have sufficient
leisure in which to expand their minds and souls.

And as he grew older and read deeper it seemed to him that the solution
lay only indirectly in any system of government. It seemed to him that
until man had learned how to use directly and freely the power sources
of nature, inequalities of wealth would always persist. And he had
learned in one bitter lesson that unhappiness and economic inequality go
hand in hand.

And so Roger dreamed his dream. For many years it was such a mad seeming
dream that he was ashamed to speak of it, even to Ernest. And yet it was
simple enough in its first outlines.

This was, Roger told himself, a machine age. The more perfect became
man's use of machinery, the more leisure could he have and the more
wealth. Ultimately man's efforts must concentrate on the effort to find
power with which to drive the world's machinery. Coal was disappearing,
water power was coming into its own. Was there not, however, some
universal source of power that could be harnessed and given to the use
of man? Some power that capital could not control nor labor misuse and
destroy?

It was thus that Roger came to study the possibilities of Solar Heat
utilization. It was thus that he became the world's first and greatest
pioneer in a new field of engineering--a field so mighty that it was to
become the dean of all other fields of power engineering.

He dreamed a dream of solving the problem of labor versus capital. He
was to learn through years of heart breaking endeavor that neither
capital nor labor has use for a dreamer of dreams no matter how
practical the dreams may be, unless the dreamer is selfish enough, is
grasping and ruthless enough to trample over other men to the top.

Roger was to learn, before he achieved success, that a man's genius can
go no higher than his character permits it to go. He was to learn that
only out of a man's will to conquer himself can come the finest
accomplishment of his work. And he was to learn that for most of us fate
works with curious indirection. So that the story of Roger's dream deals
not with a struggle between capital and labor, but with a man's struggle
with solitudes; it deals not so much with machinery as with nature; and
not so much with scientific facts as with human passions.

Thus