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MAN'S DESTINY.
THE GOLDEN AGE AND THEN..
WILL MAN RETURN TO BARBARISM,
OR LIVE FOR EVER AND COLONISE THE STARS?
Br J. B. S. HALDANE, READER IN BIO-CHEMISTRY IN CAMBRIDGE.
UNIVERSITY.].
Snakes The ancestors of oysters and barnacles had heads, have lost their limbs and ostriches and penguins their power of fight. Man may just as easily fose his intelligence.
REMARKABLE NEW INDUSTRIES"
THE SHARK AS A SOURCE OF REVENUE.
TANNING SHARKSKIN ON A YACHT.
The stark, which has for so long been regarded popularly as a dan- gerous, rapacious and worthless creature, to be destroyed' na often as possible, ia proving to be a source of food, raw materials of miany kinds, medical products and several other useful and valuable things, 21 in ali. 2.
二
Tons Eaton Daily.
If, as I am inclined to suspect, And pure science is a delicate the human will is to some small plant. It has never, flowered in Some of the uses to which it can extent free, there is no such thing Spain, and to-day it is almost dead be put were explained to a Weit- as a destiny of the human race. in Italy. Everywhere- there are minster Gazette reporter by Dr. There is a choice of destinies. Even strong forces working against it. Ehrenreich, the eminent scientist fit our actions are irrevocably "pre Even where research is rewarded, and marine biologist, who conduct- determined we do not know our the usual reward is a professorshiped him over, the converted steam destiny. In either case, however, with, a full-time programme of yacht star, in the East India we can point to a limited number teaching and administration. The Dock;
bacteriologist can most easily earn of probable fates for our species.
The Istar is the only floating First let us consider the stage for a title and a fortune if he deserts tannery in the world. It has been our drama. The earth" has existed research for medical practice. The fitted out as a training school to for over a thousand million years.
potential physicist or chemist can teach Englishmen and boys how to During most of this period its sur siten quadruple his income by tak make the most of the shark. face temperature has not been very ing up engineering or manufacture, different from that now prevailing. In biology and psychology many The sun has not cooled down appre-lines of research are forbidden by ciably during that time, and it will law or public opinion. If. acience probably be only a little cooler à is to improve man as it has im- million million years hence, though proved his environment the expert somewhere about that time it is mental method must be applied to quite likely that the earth's surface him. It is quite likely that the will be destroyed owing to the dis attempt to do so will rouse such ruption of the moon
by tidal fierce opposition that science will forces.
again be persecuted, as it has been in the past. Six hundred million years ago our ancestors were worms, ten If Science is Strangled, thousand years ago they were
Such a persecution may quite well Savages. Both these periods are be successful, especially if it is sup: negligible compared with our pos ported by religion. A world-wide sible future. Provided, therefore, that man has a future lasting for religious revival, whether Christian or not, would probably succeed in more than a few million years we ean at once say that our descend-into the human mind, which offers suppressing experimental inquiry
Already, said Dr. Ehrenreich," shark's flesh is eaten in England, under the name of rock salmon, to the extent of 250 tons a day:
"You also eat tous of it under) the name of skate," he added. Other products of the shark are:
Bullet-proof leather..
Patent leather that will not crack. Leather for bags and gloves." Table delicacies. Pigments. Medicinal oils. Fertiliser.
Insulin.
Gelatine.
Bone meut.
It is possible to get 300 square feet of leather out of a single shark. The boces are ground int fish meal very suitable for poultry as it contains re oil..
Two Million Sharks,
By chemical means Dr. Ehren--
The com-
ants may, for anything we can see the only serious hope of improving reich has discovered how to remove to the contrary, exzel us a great it. Again, if scientific psychology the sharp teeth which cover the deni mire than we excel worms or jellyBsh.
and eugenics are used as weapons whole the shark's side. by one side in a political struggle,mercial possibilities of the shark stamp them out. I think that it is ply of raw material is inexhaus- their opponents, if successful, will indastry are unlimited for the sup quite as likely as not that scientific uble. Of West Australia alone research may ultimately be strang there is a daily amigration of about led in some such was as this before 2,000,000 sharks, mankind has learnt to control its own evolution. Ba
stray
There are, however, several alter. natives to this prospect. A catas trophe of an astronomical order, such as a collision with" a heavenly body, is unlikely.
The earth has lasted a long time with out any such diensters. The sun may possibly swell up temporarily, as similar stars occasionally do. In this case the human race will be very rapidly roasted. A disease may arise which will, wipe out all, or almost all, mankind. But there is nothing in science to make such up-to-date versions of the apo caseuse rea probable..
War and Revolution.
The cost of production of the leather is ridiculously amall. To tan a hide costs old, a'square foot, but the leather has a retail value of 39. 6d. to 48. From a single bide there may be taken 14 splits" which reduces the actual cost of production to about a penny a The" nëtual tanning square foot. occupies only from four to hours
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Pigmeats are produced from the gall, glas and fertiliser from the refuse. The fits are a feast for epicures throughout China and the Far East, and shark-ment is a de licacy there. Glands can be made into insulin or used in the process of tanning
If so, evolution will take its course. And that course has generally been downwards. The majority of species have degenerat ed and become 'extinct, or, what is perhaps worse, gradually lost many of their functions. The ancestors of oysters and barnacles had heads. Snakes have lost their limbs and ostriches and penguins their power Even if man does not perish in of flight. Man may just as easily this dramatic manner, there is no
lose his intelligence.
It is only a very few species reason why civilisation should not do so. All civilisation goes back that have developed into something to a common source less than 10,000 higher. It is unlikely that man will years ago, very probably in Egypt. do so unless he desires to and is It is a highly complicated invention prepared to pay the cost. If, as which has probably been made only appears to be the case at present The interface and stomach pro- in Europe and North America, the vide leather suitable for the manu ance. It it perished it might never be made again,
less intelligent of our species con- When in the past its light was tinue to breed, more rapidly than facture of gloves and fancy bags, extinguished in one. area for the able, we shall probably go the und from the leather there is ex- tracted an oil of high medicinal exning, when the Angles and way of the dodo and the krwi. value." Saxons wrecked Roman Britain do not as yet know enough to The strongest of poisons, know it could be lit again from elsewhere, avert this Inte. If research con- tinnes for another two centuries. as our savage. ancestors were
it is probable that we shall. But civilised from Italy and Ireland.
il, as is likely enough, the welfare A modern war followed by re-
of our descendants in the remote veintions might destroy it all over future can only be realised_at" a the planet. If weapons are
very considerable sacrifice of pre- much improved in the next cen
sent happiness and liberty, it does tury as in the last, this will prob-not follow that such a sacrifice will ably happen. But unless atomic energy can be It is quite likely that, after a tapped, which is wildly unlikely, we golden age of happiness and peace, know that it will never be possible during which all the immediately to box up very much more rapidly available benefits of science will be
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be made.
We
as paison G, is used for tanning. It purifies the skin and makes the leather soft. Out of a ton of shark, it is possible to extract about one ewt. of oil. In India, there is a great demand for marine leather, the Hindus have a strong caste prejudice against calf leather.
-Bite Through Steal. The star carries 170 nets, each net being 200 yards long. The nets are soft and are made of linen hemp: the sharks would ite from 10 motor-boats, each capable of catching between two and three tone of shark a day.
OUR CABARET available energy in a given place realised, mankind will very grad through steel. The fishing is done
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than we can already box up in high explosive shell, nor has any Vapour murh more poisonous than mustard gas been discovered in the forty-one years that have elapsed since that substance was
first produced. I think therefore. that the odds are slightly águinet such a casastrophic end of civilisa tion.
ually deteriorate.
Genius will become even rarer, our bodies a little weaker in sach generation; culture will slowly de eline, and in a few thousand.ora few hundred thousand years-it
Man will certainly attempt to does not much":"matter which mankind will return to barbarism, leave the earth. The first voyagers into intersteller space will die, as and finally become extincts.
did Lilienthal and Pilcher, Mallory If this happens, I venture to hope and Irvine. There is no reason that we shall not have destroyed why their successors should not the rat, an animal of considerable succeed in colonising some, at least, enterprise which stands as good of the other planets of our system, chance as any other of evolving and ultimately the planets if such towards intelligence,
exist, revolving round other stars
the
But civilisation as we know it is a poor thing. And if it is to be improved, there is no hops save in sticnice. A hundred and forty years ago men, women and children were being hanged in England for steal-
In the rather improbable event than our sun. There is no theoretical ing property valued at over a chilling; miners were hereditary of man taking his own evolution limit to man's material progress but slaves in Scotland, criminals were in hand-in other words, of im- the subjection to complete conscious publicly and legally tortured to Proving buman nature, as opposed control of every atom and every
of radiation in quantun death in France. Europe was de- to environment-I can see no bounds. finitely rather worse off, whether in at all to its progress. Less than universe. There is perhaps, no health, wealth, or morals, than the million years hence the average limit at all to his intellectual and Roman Empire under Antoninus man or woman will realise all the spiritual progress. Pius in A.D. 160.
possibilities that human life has But whether any of these pos Since then we have improved very greatly in all these respects. We know a minute's illness. He will be as far as we can see, very largely are far from perfect, but we live able to think like Newton, to write on the events of the next few cen- about twice as long, and we do like Racine, to paint like Fra turies. If scientific research is re- not hang starving children for Angelico, to compose like Bach, garded as a useful adjunct to the istealing food, raid the coast of He will be as incapable of hatred army, the factory, or the hospital, Africs for slaves or imprison as St. Francis, and when death and not as the thing, of all things. debtors for life. These advances comes at the end of a life probably most supremely worth doing, both are the direct and indirect conse measured in thousands of years he for its own sake and that of its Physics and will meet it with as little fear as results, it is probable that the quences of science. chemistry have made a rich, bio: Captain Oates or Arnold von Win decisive steps will never be taken. logy healthy, and the application kelried. And every minute of his And unless he can control his own of scientific thought to ethics by life will be lived with all the paearolution as he is learning to con such men as Bentham has donosion of a lover or a discoverer. We trol, that of his domestic plants more than any dozen saints to make can form no idea whatever of the and animals, man and all his works us good. The process can only con- exceptional men of such a futuro.. will go down into oblivion, and tinue if science continues.
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