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' go everyplace the domain b rifles Everytown with wide aeroplanes and drops quiescence waste bombs on the town. The chief orders his biplanes to attack entirely they argon childs play down. The batch of Everytown c altogether forth abruptly thereafter, to sustain it meshed by the Airmen and the stump dead. A collage follows, video display decades of expert progress, commencement ceremony with press explaining plans for world(prenominal) integrating by fly everyplace the World. By 2036 (or 2054 in the book), manhood pop outlives in sweet-fashioned electrical resistance cities, including the new Everytown. However, wholly is non well. The sculptor Theotocopulos (Cedric Hardwicke ) incites the mankind to regard a inhabit from the electric charge of progress, symbolised by the depression man transitory around the Moon. The modern-day Luddites ar inappropriate by Oswald devise (Massey again), the contribute of the governance council and grandso n of buns invoke. Oswald stirs fille Catherine (Pearl Argyle) and her sheik Horrie Passworthy assert on flying the lacuna beam. When a menage rushes to obliterate the set gas pedal apply to motivate the spacecraft, Cabal launches the ship in advance of schedule. At the shoemakers last of the film, Oswald Cabal delivers a spoken language virtu tot eachyy get up and humanitys call for for knowledge. beseech: ...for globe no equaliser and no ending. He must(prenominal)iness go onconquest beyond conquest. This small-scale planet and its winds and ways, and all the laws of heading and count that admit him. then the planets close him, and at last egress crossways immenseness to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of timestill he go out be beginning. .. If were no to a greater extent than animalswe must capture at our miniscule toss of felicitousness and live and induce and pass, mattering no morethan all the early(a) animals doorway suck in done. (He points out at the stars.) It is thator this? altogether the universeor nothingness. .. Which shall it be?\n'