CONCLUSIONS AS TO POPULATION INCREASE 123 It may be that his future was written upon the Tablets of Destiny, zons before his world, came into being. And thus one cannot learn whether the present tendencies of Man’s life on earth are but a hint of the passing of this civilisation, or are remediable through the labours of the leaders of humanity. Thus atten- tion to the menaces of the future may presage the lifting of the World’s Shadow, or may be merely the informing of human intellect of the dark promise of the immediate Future.