by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood

Name: The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V
Author: by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood

The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

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“The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V”, published in 1915, is a work by by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood. It explores elements such as Von Koenitz, messages and the United States.

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ Have we as yet begun to solve all the mysteries of nature? Is it inconceivable that there should be an undiscovered explosive capable of disrupting the globe? We have earthquakes. Is it beyond imagination that the forces which produce them can be controlled?"
"My dear Sir John," returned Von Koenitz courteously, "my ultimate answer is that we have no adequate reason to connect the phenomena which have disturbed the earth's rotation with any human agency." ”

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ Half an hour later Bill Hood sat in his customary chair in the wireless operating room surrounded by the President of the United States, the ambassadors of France, Germany, Great Britain, and Russia, and Professor Thornton. The faces of all wore expressions of the utmost seriousness, except that of Von Koenitz, who looked as if he were participating in an elaborate hoax. Several of these distinguished gentlemen had never seen a wireless apparatus before, and showed some excitement as Hood made ready to send the most famous message ever transmitted through the ether. ”

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ This Hood is a monstrous liar or a dangerous lunatic. Even if he has received these messages, they are the emanations of a crank, as, he says, he himself first suspected. Let us master this hysteria born of the strain of constant war. In a word, let us go to bed."
"Count von Koenitz," replied Sir John after a pause, "you speak forcefully, even persuasively. But your argument is based upon a proposition that is scientifically fallacious. An atom of gunpowder can disintegrate itself, 'lift itself by its own boot-straps!' Why not the earth? ”

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ The earth has changed its orbit. Professor Vaskofsky, of the Imperial College, has so declared. There is some cause. Be it God or devil, there is a cause. Are we to sit still and do nothing while the globe's crust freezes and our armies congeal into corpses? ”

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ Messages or no messages, extraordinary natural phenomena are occurring which may shortly end in the extinction of human life upon the planet. A power which can control the length of the day can annihilate the globe. ”

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ But to say that the cause of all this is a man is preposterous. If the mysterious Pax makes the heavens fall, they will tumble on his own head. Is he going to send himself to eternity along with the rest of us? ”

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ This planet may be drawn off into space by the attraction of some wandering world that has not yet come within observation. But one thing we know: No power on or of the earth can possibly derange its relation to the other celestial bodies. ”

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ Hood was laboriously writing upon a sheet of yellow pad paper, and the ambassadors were unceremoniously crowding each other in their eagerness to read.
"To the President of the United States," wrote Hood: "In reply to your message requesting further evidence of my power to compel the cessation of hostilities within twenty-four hours, I"—there was a pause for nearly a minute, during which the ticking of the big clock sounded to Thornton like revolver shots—"I will excavate a channel through the Atlas Mountains and divert the Mediterranean into the Sahara Desert. Pax." ”

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ It has cost Russia four million men to reach Berlin. When we have taken Paris we shall recapture Berlin and commence the march of our victorious eagles toward Moscow and the Winter Palace."
"Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Be seated, I implore you!" exclaimed the President.
The Russian and German ambassadors somewhat ungraciously resumed their former places, casting at each other glances of undisguised contempt. ”

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by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth — V (1915)

“ Among these facts are the mysterious messages received by wireless at the Naval Observatory immediately preceding these events."
"Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!" half sneered Von Koenitz.
The President smiled wearily.
"What do you wish me to do?" he asked, glancing round the table. "Shall we remain inactive? Shall we wait and see what may happen?"
"No! No!" shouted Rostoloff, jumping to his feet. "Another week and we may all be plunged into eternity. It is suicidal not to regard this matter seriously. We are sick from war. ”

by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood

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