human
A PAIR OF GREAT WINGS MADE OF FEATHERS AND SILK--WHICH, ALAS! WOULD NEVER FLY.
gpt
balloon, which lifts the aëronaut in a suspended saddle and allows him, by the help of sail propeller and flapping aëroplanes (these driven by hands and feet), to make a gain on the wind, when going with it, of ten or twelve miles an hour. On this
human
Professor Myers has paddled hundreds of miles, not trying to go against the wind, but selecting currents from the many available ones that favor his purpose.
gpt
What is the use, says he,
human
Can you know with precision, I asked,
gpt
We can know a good deal by studying the clouds and by observations with kites and other instruments. And we would soon know much more if experimenters would work on these lines of conquering nature by yielding to her rather than opposing her.