The story of artificial silk

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Identifikator:: 1765923751

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-146069

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Casson, Herbert Newton http://d-nb.info/gnd/118814435

Title:: The story of artificial silk

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Efficiency Magazine

Year of publication:: [1928]

Scope:: xiii S., S. 17 - 130

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The vast possibilities of the artificial silk trade

Collection:: Economics Books

EPILOGUE 125 found, as we have already stated, that this law was approximately fulfilled by some small forms of life developing in restricted regions. We have already indicated that any attempt to prognosticate the future numbers of Man, by extra- polating the curve of his growth in the past, must fail, not merely because we have no exact numerical record of his past, but also because the factors which determine his numbers are numerous, and are liable to momentous changes. And even had we a numerical measure of all the factors, and numbers sufficiently accurate to permit of an analysis disclosing the part played by each, accurate prediction would still be impossible, for we are not aware what governs the rising of life- forms inimical to, or beneficial to, Man. In the past, plague, cholera and yellow fever have at times played havoc with the human race. What we regard as utterly insignificant and useless forms of life often thrive at our expense. We disappear while they de- velop in countless numbers. Plagues of caterpillars, of “locusts,” of the * boll weevil,” of mice, etc., reveal how relatively helpless we are, when Nature develops life on lines that oppose our well-being. Entomologists have expressed a fear that Man may actually be over- whelmed by the insect world. However much we may discount. their terrors on the ground that possibly they magnify their office, the dangers, it is easy to see, may become formidable. It oftens happens that Man reaches results, through better (1) agricultural technique, that are most hopeful; only to learn a little later that his improved varieties of plants are very liable to be attacked by disease or by insect pests. At present we have no knowledge what it is causes the various evils, that harass mankind, suddenly to take on a serious form, and it is by no means certain that increased scientific knowledge will enable Man to cope with his enemies. We do not know what Nature’s

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