TANTALUS
Reading edition
OR THE FUTURE OF MAN
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW SERIES DAEDALUS, or Science and the Future By J. B. S. Haldane ICARUS, or The Future of Science By Bertrand Russell, F. R. S. THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST By F. G. Crookshank, M.D. WIRELESS POSSIBILITIES By Prof. A. M. Low NARCISSUS, or The Anatomy of Clothes By Gerald Heard TANTALUS, or The Future of Man By F. C. S. Schiller In Preparation THE PASSING OF THE PHANTOMS By Professor Patten WOMAN AND THE FUTURE By Anthony M. Ludovici E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

TANTALUS OR The Future of Man
BY F. C. S. SCHILLER M.A., D.Sc.; Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Man never is, but always to be, blest
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