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it today. They overlook or wilfully ignore the well-recognized fact 

 that the lust for power by one man, or a small group of men, leads 

 all too frequently to that great social and economic disaster called 

 war. Until indoctrinated race antipathies and hatreds, envy, and 

 greed for power are eliminated from human nature through spirit- 

 ual regeneration, we shall have no solution of this fatal disease 

 which afflicts humanity. Science, though it is able to confer the 

 richest blessings upon mankind, is not able to change the heart of 

 man and insure that the great increases in scientific knowledge will 

 be beneficently applied. But while this is unquestionably true, I 

 nevertheless hold that the great contribution which the development 

 of the organic chemical industry has made to the self-sufficiency of 

 this country is a definite contribution toward the maintenance of 

 peace. 



