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turned against the very foundations of society itself.”

A pertinent thought instantly suggests itself: the methods and instruments, more or less blindly improvised, to master inorganic nature, are surely obsolete when the battle is won. Functions deemed to be essential in the early struggle are found purposeless, if not harmful, as we move into a new era. To-day, as I write this, it is officially announced that one-third of the Brazilian coffee crop is to be destroyed to maintain prices. It is curious that the criminal aspect of this monstrous act is not seen, much less condemned. Obviously the old machinery—capitalism, with its usury, its perverted finance, its wage system—is now rusty and fit only for the scrap-heap. Functional harmony must supplant it.

Julian Huxley also remarks that we must cease to waste our energies, externally as well as internally. External friction, if not something infinitely more tragic, must restrict our lives, unless we realise that functional harmony must also prevail amongst nations and peoples.

Alas! How far this carries us beyond the limited and distorted visions of our industrial and political leaders. And yet they must come to it. The obstacles on the road to it are really less terrifying than the morass into which they daily plunge, inviting us to admire their courage and prescience.

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