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Barbicane
returned
for
answer
that
,
even
if
Captain
Nicholl
would
be
so
good
as
to
stand
in
front
,
he
would
not
fire
any
more
.
Nicholl
could
not
contain
himself
at
this
reply
;
threw
out
hints
of
cowardice
;
that
a
man
who
refused
to
fire
a
cannon-shot
was
pretty
near
being
afraid
of
it
;
that
artillerists
who
fight
at
six
miles
distance
are
substituting
mathematical
formulae
for
individual
courage
.
To
these
insinuations
Barbicane
returned
no
answer
;
perhaps
he
never
heard
of
them
,
so
absorbed
was
he
in
the
calculations
for
his
great
enterprise
.
When
his
famous
communication
was
made
to
the
Gun
Club
,
the
captain
's
wrath
passed
all
bounds
;
with
his
intense
jealousy
was
mingled
a
feeling
of
absolute
impotence
.
How
was
he
to
invent
anything
to
beat
this
900-feet
Columbiad
?
What
armor-plate
could
ever
resist
a
projectile
of
30,000
pounds
weight
?
Overwhelmed
at
first
under
this
violent
shock
,
he
by
and
by
recovered
himself
,
and
resolved
to
crush
the
proposal
by
weight
of
his
arguments
.
He
then
violently
attacked
the
labors
of
the
Gun
Club
,
published
a
number
of
letters
in
the
newspapers
,
endeavored
to
prove
Barbicane
ignorant
of
the
first
principles
of
gunnery
.
He
maintained
that
it
was
absolutely
impossible
to
impress
upon
any
body
whatever
a
velocity
of
12,000
yards
per
second
;
that
even
with
such
a
velocity
a
projectile
of
such
a
weight
could
not
transcend
the
limits
of
the
earth
's
atmosphere
.
Further
still
,
even
regarding
the
velocity
to
be
acquired
,
and
granting
it
to
be
sufficient
,
the
shell
could
not
resist
the
pressure
of
the
gas
developed
by
the
ignition
of
1,600,000
pounds
of
powder
;
and
supposing
it
to
resist
that
pressure
,
it
would
be
less
able
to
support
that
temperature
;
it
would
melt
on
quitting
the
Columbiad
,
and
fall
back
in
a
red-hot
shower
upon
the
heads
of
the
imprudent
spectators
.
Barbicane
continued
his
work
without
regarding
these
attacks
.
Nicholl
then
took
up
the
question
in
its
other
aspects
.
Without
touching
upon
its
uselessness
in
all
points
of
view
,
he
regarded
the
experiment
as
fraught
with
extreme
danger
,
both
to
the
citizens
,
who
might
sanction
by
their
presence
so
reprehensible
a
spectacle
,
and
also
to
the
towns
in
the
neighborhood
of
this
deplorable
cannon
.
He
also
observed
that
if
the
projectile
did
not
succeed
in
reaching
its
destination
(
a
result
absolutely
impossible
)
,
it
must
inevitably
fall
back
upon
the
earth
,
and
that
the
shock
of
such
a
mass
,
multiplied
by
the
square
of
its
velocity
,
would
seriously
endanger
every
point
of
the
globe
.
Under
the
circumstances
,
therefore
,
and
without
interfering
with
the
rights
of
free
citizens
,
it
was
a
case
for
the
intervention
of
Government
,
which
ought
not
to
endanger
the
safety
of
all
for
the
pleasure
of
one
individual
.
In
spite
of
all
his
arguments
,
however
,
Captain
Nicholl
remained
alone
in
his
opinion
.
Nobody
listened
to
him
,
and
he
did
not
succeed
in
alienating
a
single
admirer
from
the
president
of
the
Gun
Club
The
latter
did
not
even
take
the
pains
to
refute
the
arguments
of
his
rival
.
