surgical freezing of the responsible cells m the brain. Many 

 psychologically disturbed people can be assisted to return 

 to health by psychiatric treatment (although at least one 

 noted authority has expressed doubt as to the efficacy of 

 present-day methods here). And the seriously mentally ill 

 — e.g. those with schizophrenia — may be treatable fairly 

 soon as a result of advancing knowledge of the true na- 

 ture of mental illness : e.g. recent work suggests that schizo- 

 phrenia may be caused by environmental circumstances, 

 which might be brought under control. 



The production of enough food to feed every person 

 on the Earth to a fully satisfactory standard is entirely 

 within our abilities today. The primitive soil-scratching 

 agricultural methods of the Asiatic and Africian peoples 

 can be replaced by mechanized agriculture with a great 

 gain in efficiency of production. Comparison of figures 

 for the United States of America (where 12% of the 

 population produce more food than is required), and for 

 India (where 70% of the population does not produce 

 enough food to raise the country above the malnutrition 

 level), shows immediately the far greater effectiveness of 

 modem agricultural techniques. In order to utilize these 

 properly it is necessary to reclaim the at present semi- 

 desert and rain-forest regions of the world, to move many 

 of the people from Asia to settle in new areas, and to 

 provide them with full technological knowledge needed 

 to reach the modem standard of food production. 



To bring the world's backward peoples to a state of in- 

 dustrialization in which they can make many of their own 

 material requirements, and provide trading ability with 

 other countries, technological knowledge is a necessity for 

 them. The basic knowledge needed — modern methods of 

 locating and mining minerals, steel and alloy production, 



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