r dining halls and kitchens.

"There being no such agency as commerce in Sageland, through which the
necessities of life were bought, sold, exchanged, or stolen, there was,
of course, no need for such establishments as wholesale or retail
stores, banks, etc. Neither were there any jails. Great national work-
shops, laboratories, and store-houses, a national auditorium, art
gallery, museum, and observatory were the only buildings erected besides
the rural and borough dwellings.

"The chief industries of our people were planting, reaping, condensing
and distributing dietary substances; manufacturing such things as
machinery, clothing, paints, musical and scientific instruments, and
building. Railroads, steamships, mail service, the telegraph and
telephone had become obsolete with the Sagemen. In the first place, it
was not necessary for men to travel at all in person, for by the power
of mind sight they were able to see what took place at any particular
place on earth, and also they were capable of communicating with each
other telepathically at any distance just as easily as I am now
conversing with you.

"Great centrifugal and centripetal engines, capable of transplanting any
quantity of material from one place to another, were constructed for
carrying purposes, while automatic transmuting machines, by which one
element could be turned into another, cut down the necessity of
transportation to a minimum. Machinery, directed by the human mind, and
deriving its power from the sun and other forces of nature, did all of
the Sageman's laborious work.

"The Sageman's discovery and partial utilization of the two great forces
of nature, centrifugal and centripetal power, were the causes of his
final destruction, however, for he not only used them advantageously
here, but by that method actually tried to regulate the earth's course
in space to suit himself. And furthermore, he not only contemplated
steering his own world in whatever direction or part of the heavens he
might choose, but his ultimate plans were to visit, inhabit and control
the movements of all the great bodies of the universe.

"These laudable purposes, while no doubt practical, failed by being
undertaken prematurely as forewarned by many of our ablest thinkers,
who, unfortunately, were in the minority when the question of making the
initial trial was voted upon. And by this failure the earth was rent in
a fearful manner, its map considerably altered and Sage