Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings.
- Herbert Spencer Jennings
- Date:
- [1925]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Credit: Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PROMETHEUS capitalist class in complete possession, the world would become uniform ; doubtless more comfortable ; certainly less entertaining as a spectacle. The unexpected, the exciting, the amusing, the melodramatic, would disappear. With this would go poetry, art, litera¬ ture. The human orchard would consist of well-trimmed fruit trees in set rows, each bearing a crop of succu¬ lent fruit. Unfortunately or fortunately (which¬ ever one's philosophy inclines him to hold), this cannot be done in mankind. If an ingenious inventor were set to devise a system for the purpose of heading off completely anything of this sort, he could hardly produce one so effective as the one found in nature. This might rather seem devised to the end of giving the greatest possible [90]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18032576_0093.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
