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On that day chemistry will have
accomplished a world-wide revolution that cannot be estimated.
There will no longer be hills covered with vineyards and fields
filled with cattle. Man will gain in gentleness and morality
because he will cease to live by the carnage and destruction of
living creatures.... The earth will be covered with grass,
flowers and woods and in it the human race will dwell in the
abundance and joy of the legendary age of gold--provided that a
spiritual chemistry has been discovered that changes the nature
of man as profoundly as our chemistry transforms material
nature.
But this is looking so far into the future that we can trust no man's
eyesight, not even Berthelot's. There is apparently no impossibility
about the manufacture of synthetic food, but at present there is no
apparent probability of it. There is no likelihood that the laboratory
will ever rival the wheat field. The cornstalk will always be able to
work cheaper than the chemist in the manufacture of starch.


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