THERE is no disguising the fact that the whole civilized world is uneasy. The late war was the beginning. Social problems are becoming more grave; races hitherto content with white domination are impatient for freedom; international relations do not grow less delicate; crime everywhere is on the increase; the poor are discontented, the rich anxious; clairvoyants predict trouble, astrologers calculate it; in the East it is preached far and wide. Portents encourage the fears of the superstitious; the Press publishes articles on the decline of civilization! There are rumours of wars, and talk of another great war is not absent from the guarded words of statesmen. The earth itself is uneasy!

An oppressive atmosphere usually precedes a great storm.

Disease is so prevalent today that at a moderate estimate 50 per cent. of the populations of all Western nations are physically unsound. We are told by experts that within a comparatively short period one in every seven of us will die of cancer, if a remedy be not found.

The grave weaknesses of national health have drawn attention to diet. Authorities are not lacking who believe that the existing systems of preserving food poison the people. Others see disease in the impurities in the air, in the reckless treatment of milk, and in the disgusting exposure of meat for sale. Yet others attribute health failure to the intensity of modern life, or to the disturbance of the atmosphere by the development of wireless waves.