Excerpt from Life and Its Maintenance: A Symposium on Biological Problems of the Day
The subject-matter of this volume was delivered in the form of public lectures at University College, London, by the several authors, during the first half of 1918. Though the majority of the subjects included appear in the form of more or less acute war problems, there are few of them that do not possess at least as great a value in relation to the enjoyment of peace. Most problems need a crisis before they attract serious attention, and it is just this service which the war has rendered. Our problems are really peace-time problems standing out in relief against the background of the war.
Thus, so long as population continues to expand indefinitely and the yield of grain is limited by the area of the earth"s surface susceptible to the cultivation of cereals, no one will have the audacity to assert that the determination of the ultimate food and energy resources of the wheat grain is a mere episode of war.
Then take the beautiful work on the vitamines called forth by the appearance of "deficiency" diseases in several theatres of the war.
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