Sprague's Journal of Maine History
Vol. 6
May, June, July 1918
No. 1
page 29


One hundred and fifty-six years ago, Dr. Samuel Johnson, in
Rasselas," wrote the following which, in the light of war methods
of today seem prophetic:

If men were all virtuous I should with great alacrity teach them to fly.
But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure
invade them from the sky? Against all army sailing through the clouds
neither walls, mountains nor seas could offer security. A flight of savages
might hover in the wind and light with irresistible violence upon the capital
of a fruitful region      

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