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The blending of fact and fancy which men call legend reached its fullest and richest expression in the golden age of Greece. And
thus it is to greek mythology that one must turn for the best form of any legend which foreshadows history.
Yet the prevalence of legends regarding flight. Existing in the records of practically every race. Shows that this form of
So it must have appeared and there is no age in history in which some dreams have not dreamed of the conquest of the air:
He did.
There is the groundwork of much of the older
In a study of the first beginnings of the art. It is worth while to mention even the earliest of the legends and traditions.
For they show the trend of Men’s mind and the constancy of this dream that Has become reality in the Twentieth century.
In one of the oldest records of the world. The Indian Classic mahabarata.
It is stated that ‘Krishna’s Enemies sought the aid of the Demons.
Who built an aerial chariot with sides of iron And clad with wings.
The chariot was driven through the sky till it stood Over dwarakha.
Where Krishna’s followers dwelt.
And from there it hurled Down upon the city missiles that destroyed everything on which they fell.
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