1 Some power unknown to men was making it move.
2 We know not what this power is nor whence it comes.
3 The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding.
4 We came to know that we had found the greatest power on earth.
5 There is a great power in these wires, but this power is tamed.
6 We know that we are evil, but there is no will in us and no power to resist it.
7 Let us all work together, and harness this power, and make it ease the toil of men.
8 And now we know that metal draws the power of the sky, and that metal can be made to give it forth.
9 We shall go to this Council and we shall lay before them, as our gift, this glass box with the power of the sky.
10 We shall join our hands to theirs, and we shall work together, with the power of the sky, for the glory of mankind.
11 And we heard suddenly that we were laughing, laughing aloud, laughing as if there were no power left in us save laughter.
12 We do not understand them, but we think that the men of the Unmentionable Times had known our power of the sky, and these things had some relation to it.
13 Men never enter the Uncharted Forest, for there is no power to explore it and no path to lead among its ancient trees which stand as guards of fearful secrets.
14 The frog had been hanging on a wire of copper; and it had been the metal of our knife which had sent the strange power to the copper through the brine of the frog's body.
15 We put a piece of copper and a piece of zinc into a jar of brine, we touched a wire to them, and there, under our fingers, was a miracle which had never occurred before, a new miracle and a new power.
16 Tonight, after more days and trials than we can count, we finished building a strange thing, from the remains of the Unmentionable Times, a box of glass, devised to give forth the power of the sky of greater strength than we had ever achieved before.
17 It makes the needle move and turn on the compass which we stole from the Home of the Scholars; but we had been taught, when still a child, that the loadstone points to the north and that this is a law which nothing can change; yet our new power defies all laws.
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