tical needs, so that all national governments will find them- 

 selves obliged to concur in facilitating the plans of the 

 scientists, since if such governments do not aid their 

 scientists as they are asked to do, they will lose the support 

 of their own people who will be ever more anxious to 

 follow the reason of science in matters concerning them. 



It should also be observed by all governments that, 

 since the conduct of any future wars is dependent largely 

 on the supply of new types of weapons devised by scientists, 

 it is within the power of the scientists to halt the creation 

 of further weapons and possibly even to divert present war 

 materials from being used for war puposes. It is also quite 

 probable that before the present century closes the scientists 

 will insist on even the internal government of each country 

 being conducted largely by scientists, and there is little 

 doubt that they will require the formation of a world gov- 

 ernment of scientists before that time. The members of 

 such a world government would be elected by the govern- 

 ments of individual countries, and would be the most able 

 scientists in the world. 



The alternatives to a world-wide adoption of scientific 

 government appear today to be as follows: A world, nomi- 

 nally "free", based on the individual-nullifying democracy 

 of the United States; a world, essentially of slaves, based 

 on the communism of the U.S.S.R.; a world, in effective 

 chaos, based on the communist methods of China; and a 

 world, in which reason would be extinguished, based on 

 the tenets of some major religion, e.g. Catholicism. Let us 

 hope that we shall choose the way of science instead, that 

 way which is in reality the latest phase in Man's evolution. 



