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Bir Oliver Lodge's prediction that the Iday

is coming when men will discover how to use stomic energy (the tremend ous force which is locked up in the particles of all substance), and thus curo possession of an inexhaustible source of power, is attracting the atten tion of imaginative writers throughout America Nothing that H. G. Wells pat into his earlier books surgames in" detail" the prophesies now being hazarded as to what vill happen to the world when atom, energy passes under the control of the pan race.

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Fages are being printed by the new- papers showing recapantylovagy a páis post hergy to Lip In New LDIK. Mycraper, and revealing ovar› potential-tents which leaveszne »rowder kasping. Ar the world a troubled que, so Lome unrest and long pours 'Dr, Labuar, By the ancipies "at some energy, will disappear once this new ONG"IM:VALLĘG and cunnes into the keeping of man. „ÍŠ KƏSLIMSLEĞ· · by one expert that when

LO WOTE, is put atomic energy himself will pe able to get through ale "with no more than a few minutes awe- rago labour per day.

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but, at this point, horrified objectors sre arising to point out that af 2015-be true man with pen see nis' faculties 'dis- appear throngniacz of use, and w change into a creature of sloth, without use to the globe be innabits. When that time comes says one ruthless evolu tionist, man with follow the invariable law or lite as this planet has, always kpown it, and will become extingganed. As the great prehistoric animals became Textinct, so man's cwn too easy dominance of nature will be nis undoing, insist these pessimistic critica,

1They acclare that if man's labour' 'is reduced to no mora thanrew minutes per day brusheviks-will arise to assert enat: kuose: Downinates are forced on them by capitalistic conspiracies.

Instead of anarchistic societies, "there will arise societies of atomic energy; say the' logicians, and instead of throwing bunbe to blow up a few capitalista, it sa inevitable that some hotheads will release agh energy to destroy the whole planety this bringing the human race to an end.

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The only way to prevent this final outcome of placing auch enormous mechanical power in the hands of TAMD kind declare the newspaper scientista, is to prepare the way betwehand-Man- kind, aria grem deneloped) bas-nöt reached the point of intellectual evolu tion where he can be trusted with more destructive agents than he already ha It is not yet-possible for any nation for any group of individuals to des troy the world. They can destroy nations, and destroy civilisation, but there will be always something left to stand on and to start all over again

But, when a fall supply of atomic energy comes to band,& few pulls of a wrong, lever or the pressing of an electric button could split the world physically into planetary dust, falling through space, without a trace of its former being

Other commentators are using this pos sibility of catastrophe for the human race sa a text to preach that, humanity cannot afford to see labour become too easy, The reason for human life, say these exities, is to work. Without work in sufficient quantity to make the worker put-forto considerable effort, man bar always in every condition of life, es we know it, degenerated

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