But at that time Energon, the little giant that was destined to do the work of the world, was unknown and undreamed of.  Only Goliah knew, and he kept his secret well.  Even his agents, who were armed with it, and who, in the case of the yacht Energon, destroyed a mighty fleet of war-ships by exploding their magazines, knew not what the subtle and potent force was, nor how it was manufactured.  They knew only one of its many uses, and in that one use they had been instructed by Goliah.  It is now well known that radium, and radiyte, and radiosole, and all the other compounds, were by-products of the manufacture of Energon by Goliah from the sunlight; but at that time nobody knew what Energon was, and Goliah continued to awe and rule the world.

One of the uses of Energon was in wireless telegraphy.  It was by its means that Goliah was able to communicate with his agents all over the world.  At that time the apparatus required by an agent was so clumsy that it could not be packed in anything less than a fair-sized steamer trunk.  To-day, thanks to the improvements of Hendsoll, the perfected apparatus can be carried in a coat pocket.

It was in December, 1924, that Goliah sent out his famous “Christmas Letter,” part of the text of which is here given: 

“So far, while I have kept the rest of the nations from each other’s throats, I have devoted myself particularly to the United States.  Now I have not given to the people of the United States a rational social organization.  What I have done has been to compel them to make that organization themselves.  There is more laughter in the United States these days, and there is more sense.  Food and shelter are no longer obtained by the anarchistic methods of so-called individualism but are now wellnigh automatic.  And the beauty of it is that the people of the United States have achieved all this for themselves.  I did not achieve it for them.  I repeat, they achieved it for themselves.  All that I did was to put the fear of death in the hearts of the few that sat in the high places and obstructed the coming of rationality and laughter.  The fear of death made those in the high places get out of the way, that was all, and gave the intelligence of man a chance to realize itself socially.

“In the year that is to come I shall devote myself to the rest of the world.  I shall put the fear of death in the hearts of all that sit in the high places in all the nations.  And they will do as they have done in the United States—­get down out of the high places and give the intelligence of man a chance for social rationality.  All the nations shall tread the path the United States is now on.