1 Two-Legs still lives.
 
He will not die as long as the world exists.
 
He lives now in one country and now in another. No one knows for certain where he is; and there are not many who think of him in the ordinary course of things. Only very few have seen him, but those who have will never forget him either, so old is he and venerable, so clever and radiant his eyes.
 
He is the same that he always was.
 
In the beginning, he supplied himself with food and clothes, shelter against the weather and defence against his . He built himself huts and houses, killed some of the wild animals and tamed others. He taught his children to sow and reap. Misfortune overtook him and he conquered it. His descendants multiplied and filled the earth.
 
Since then he conquered the wind and Steam and Electricity. He bound them and gave them to man for his servants. And man trained them, even as he had trained the horse and the ox and the dog.
 
The steam-engine gives bread to many times more people than all the beasts of the field. The electric spirit does a thousand times more tricks in man’s service than the horse or the dog.
 
In the evening, when Two-Legs sits outside his house, the voices speak to him as before:
 
“Two-Legs ... the of the animals ... the lord of the ox and the horse and the dog ... the strongest of all creatures.”
 
“Two-Legs ... who conquered the wind and took him into his service.... He made him turn the mill ... made him carry the ship over the sea.”
 
“Two-Legs ... the lord of Steam.... He forced him into his engine and told him to do the tasks which men put him to.”
 
“Two-Legs, the wisest, the strongest.... He explored the lightning and bound it.... He compelled it to draw the greatest weights and to shine calmly and gently in men’s small rooms and to carry their messages from one end of the world to the other.”
 
Two-Legs listened to the voices, but only for a moment. He was examining a piece of metal which he held in his hand and into which he had been long and secretly :
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