Within the limits of the present article it would be impracticable to deal adequately with exhaustive constructional details, or, in fact, many points bearing particularly upon the gist of this subject. Suffice it, then, to briefly refer to those facts by which the fundamental laws upon which is evolved the future complex and impressive airship of the near future is based, the lessons of Nature containing those laws, and which, in these modern days, are certainly insufficiently studied, and how man can reproduce these selfsame teachings by his methods culminating in the long-cherished, but by no means apocryphal and abortive, subjugation of the wide realms of the air.

The flying and soaring of all natural volant creatures is simply explained on well-known mechanical principles, and the majestic air-craft of the future will, in short, embody those principles intealia by the ingenuity of man.