MANKIND’S ENEMY.
GERMS OF DISEASE. AVhile diplomats are apprehensive about the possibility of a Europea* war, Sir Oliver Lodge told the Daily Mail, at the opening of the British Association Conference at Leicester, that the “next tremendous war will be against enemies visible only through a microscope, and the enemy will be germs of deadly disease. “I believe ultimately that nations will learn not to fight among themselves, and will be forced to combine against the common enemy of mankind. “We are not afraid of wild animals but we have done little to combat invisible organisms, infinitely more dan gerous than the most ferocious beasts. “Unhappily the sicentist’s discoveries are frequently perverted to the destruction of human life. The blame lies on politicians and other’s, who must ensure that the inventions shall be used for the benefit of mankind.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 7
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