Civilisation knows how to use such powers as it has, while the immense potentiality of the unlicensed is dissipated in vapour. (John Buchan)

Civilisation knows how to use such powers as it has, while the immense potentiality of the unlicensed is dissipated in vapour.

John Buchan

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