You know as well as I do that the world is in a mess, and floundering deeper every day. We have only a precarious hold on the forces we do liberate - and problems that we ought to be trying to solve, we neglect. Look at us - thousands more of us every day. ... In a century or so, we shall be in the Age of Famines. We shall manage to postpone the worst one way and another, but postponement isn't solution, and when the breakdown comes there'll be something so ghastly that the hydrogen-bomb will seem humane by comparison.