First Sentence

"THE Great War produced many inventions, rapidly developed many weapons which were yet in their infancy, and brought into use forms of warfare which had either been unforeseen or only foreseen in the minds of men with great vision, who were generally ridiculed at the time for having them; just as now we have those who foretell how future wars will be entirely fought in the air and how whole towns and even countries will be destroyed by poison."