Man Cannot Influence In This Respect The

I Believe That There Have Been Civilisations In The Past That Were Familiar With Atomic Energy, And That By Misusing It They Were Totally Destroyed.

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.

Heat Energy Of Uniform Temperature [is] The Ultimate Fate Of All Energy. The Power Of Sunlight And Coal, Electric Power, Water Power, Winds And Tides Do The Work Of The World, And In The End All Unite To Hasten The Merry Molecular Dance.

Man Cannot Influence In This Respect The Atomic Forces Of Nature.

The Fact Remains That, If The Supply Of Energy Failed, Modern Civilization Would Come To An End As Abruptly As Does The Music Of An Organ Deprived Of Wind.