KINDRED EVILS
“ Leonardo da Vinci is said to have destroyed the drawings of his inventions of an aeroplane and a submarine lest evil men some day should use these inventions for the destruction of their fellow creatures," says a writer in Zealandia, the Roman Catholic paper. “A pretty shrewd forecast. Still, someone may yet find a rational job for even a submarine. But what a blessing to humanity if Leonardo had got hold of the designs of the first saxophone! There were only 10 plagues in the time of Egypt's visitation. If there had been an eleventh the saxophone would have been it.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24417, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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103KINDRED EVILS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24417, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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