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important lines she has controlled the markets of the world, not 

 on account of her superior business or commercial intelligence 

 but because of the knowledge and technical skill of her chemists. 



Whatever we may think of the outcome it can not be denied 

 that it is applied science that has enabled the German Empire 

 to suddenly convert itself into a huge engine of destruction, all 

 parts of which seem to have been so delicately adjusted to each 

 other that the awful strain to which the whole is now subjected 

 is distributed among the several members in exact proportion 

 to their ability to bear. Other nations are learning this lesson 

 in the hard school of experience and they are paying tuition in 

 blood and treasure. 



Fortunately for us it may be learned by observation as well 

 as by experiment. 



