The Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb Is

Some Of The Beliefs And Legends Bequethed To Us By Antquity Are So Universally And Firmly Established That We Have Become Accustomed To Consider Them As Being Almost As Ancient As Humanity Itself. Nevertheless We Are Tempted To Inquire How Far The Fact That Some Of These Beliefs And Legends Have So Many Features In Common Is Due To Chance, And Wether The Similarity Between Them May Not Point To The Exestience Of An Ancient, Totally Unknown And Unsuspected Civilization Of Which All Other Traces Have Disappeared.

It Is Probable That All Heavy Matter Possesses - Latent And Bound Up With The Structure Of The Atom - A Similar Quantity Of Energy To That Possessed By Radium. If It Could Be Tapped And Controlled What An Agent It Would Be In Changing The World's Destiny! The Man Who Put His Hand On The Lever By Which A Parsimonious Nature Regulates So Jealously The Output Of This Store Of Energy Would Possess A Weapon By Which He Could Destroy The Earth If He Chose.

With All Our Mastery Over The Powers Of Nature We Have Adhered To The View That The Struggle For Existence Is A Permanent And Necessary Condition Of Life.

In So Far As Such Developments Utilise The Natural Energy Running To Waste, As In Water Power, They May Be Accounted As Pure Gain. But In So Far As They Consume The Fuel Resources Of The Globe They Are Very Different. The One Is Like Spending The Interest On A Legacy, And The Other Is Like Spending The Legacy Itself. ... [there Is] A Still Hardly Recognised Coming Energy Problem.

The Whole Profit Of The Issuance Of Money Has Provided The Capital Of The Great Banking Business As It Exists Today.