HOW TO MAKE MUSSOLINI

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 July 1935, Page 11

HOW TO MAKE MUSSOLINI

A LITTLE EXTRA IRON Mr. C. E. M. Joad, the scientist, stated recently that lie agreed with Dr. T. E. Lawson, the eminent physician, that the prescription for “one man” was: Enough water to till a 10-gallon barrel; Enough fat for seven bars of soap; Carbon for 9,000 lead pencils; Phosphorous for 2,200 match-heads; Iron for one medium-sized nail; Lime enough to whitewash a chicken coop, and Small quantities of magnesium and sulphur. Mr. Joad was delivering the Haldane Memorial Lecture on Science and Human Freedom at the. Bickbeck College of the University of London. He added: “Take these ingredients, combine them in the right proportions in the right way, and the result, apparently, is a man. “The proportions may vary slightly. For example, if you increase the amount of iron, you may get a Mussolini. A larger proportion of soft soap produces I will leave you to supply the answer.” Mr. Joad said this prescription applied to the body, but he had only to go to the biologists and geneticists for information as to genus, species and race, and to the psychologists for a statement in terms of inherited disposition. temperament, mental structure and complexes in the unconscious mind. Character could be brought , within the bounds of the formula.