Chapter 3 - Anthem

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Chapter three, We equality seven tofive to one, have discovered a new
power of nature, and we havediscovered it alone, and we are to
know it. It is said,now let us be lashed for it,
if we must. The Council ofScholars has said that we all know the

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things which exist, and therefore allthe things which are not known by all
do not exist. But we thinkthat the Council of Scholars is blind.
The secrets of this earth are notfor all men to see, but only
for those who will seek them.We know, for we have found a
secret unknown to all our brothers.We know not what this power is,

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nor whence it comes, but weknow it is nature. We have watched
it and worked with it. Wesaw it first two years ago. One
night we were cutting open the bodyof a dead when we saw its leg
jerking. It was dead, yetit moved. Some power unknown to men

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was making it move. We couldnot understand it. Then, after many
tests, we found the answer.The frog had been hanging on a wire
of copper, and it had beenthe metal of our knife which had sent
a strange power to the copper throughthe brine of the FOG's body. We
put a piece of copper and apiece of zinc into a jar of brine.

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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.
This discovery haunted us. We followedit in preference to all our studies.
We worked with it. We testedit in more ways than we can describe,

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and each step was another miracle.While unveiling before us, we came
to know that we had found thegreatest power on earth, for it defies
all the laws known to men.It makes the needle move and turn on
the compass, which we stole fromthe house of scholars. But we had
been taught, when still a child, that the loadstone points to the north,

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and this is a law which nothingcan change. Yet our new power
defies all laws. We found thatit causes lightning, and never have men
known what causes lightning in thunderstorms.Were raised a tall rod of iron by
the side of our hole and watchedit from below. We have seen the
lightning strike it again and again.And now we know that metal draws the

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power of the sky, and thatmetal can be made to give it.
Forth, we have built strange thingswith this discovery of ours, we used
it for the copper wires which wefound here under the ground the length of
our tunnel. With a candle lightingthe way, we could go no further
than a half a mile, forearth and rock had fallen at both ends.

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But we gathered all the things wefound, and we brought them to
our workplace. We found strange boxeswith bars of metal inside, with many
cords and strands and coils of metal. We found wires that led to strange
little globes of glass on the walls. They contained threads of metal thinner than

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a spider's web. These things helpus in our work. We do not
understand them, but we think thatthe men of the unmentionable times had known
our power of the sky, andthese things had some relation to it.
We do not know, but weshall learn. We cannot stop now,

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even though it frightens us that weare alone in our knowledge. No single
one can possess greater wisdom than themany scholars who are elected by all men
for their wisdom. Yet we can, we do. We have fought against
saying it, but now it issaid. We do not care. We

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forget all men, all laws,and all things save our medals and our
wires. So much is still tobe learned. So long a road lies
before us, And what care weif we must travel it alone? End
of Chapter three