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that success would arm it with a new weapon calculated to fill its foes with dread-and caution.
   According to report, the Wrights must sell their invention before making any general disclosure of their secret, because no feature of their device is patentable.  It seems, however, as though an airship that really flew would be about the newest thing imaginable and the least like anything else in existence.  If that doesn't constitute a sound claim for a patent, what does?  Be this as it may, there is apparently justification for believing that some of us still alive are going to travel through the air in machines really dirigible and moving at great speed.  That, when it comes, will be the beginning of a change in human life in all its activities as no invention ever made before.