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Excerpt from The Road of Ambition
That was fireworks for you! Free for all! The gush of blood-red lava - sparks ?ying skyward a molten river of death from which the men sprang back with an oath, but which they guided unerringly.
It gripped Bill anew each time he saw it. It gave him the feeling of triumphal strength. It proved conclusively that man could do anything - anything he set his mind to! If he could control steel, he could control the world - for steel was the world when you came to think of it! Given your two fists and the thing that made you know when to use them - a man had everything!
Long ago he had honestly tried to hate the big industry. It was on the first day he had seen the Works. He was but a boy then. His father had been hurt, they said - his great, strong father. He had followed his mother whimpering with a fear of something - he knew not what, but half eager to see, half ashamed of his eagerness.
They had found his father stretched out close to the furnaces he had tended so faithfully. In the glare of the fire the deep gash on his forehead glowed like a thing alive. Bill, trembling, and sob bing, had heard the men whisper - It's got him. It most always does. He had seen his mother ?ing herself on the still form and he had wanted then with all his heart to despise the Thing - the cruel, merciless Thing which had crushed out his father's life.
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