ABSTRACT
Mr. Nobel expressed his desire for these five Inventors as people often manage to express things in wills, in such a way that not everybody had been sure what he meant. There seems to have been comparatively little trouble, from year to year, in awarding the prizes to some adequate inventor in the domain of Peace, of Physics, of Chemistry, and of Medicine. Mr. Nobel’s eight thousand pounds did not go to a comparatively obscure and uncapitalized inventor, who had written a book to build a world with, or at least a great preliminary design, or sketch, towards a world. The Nobel Prize Trustees, instead of giving the eight thousand pounds to Allen Upward, looked carefully about through all the nations until their eyes fell on a certain Mr. Rudyard Kipling.
