To be human is to be in danger. By virtue of his possession of a unique nervous system, a nervous system which is much more plastic and educable than that of any other living animal, man is capable of confusing and endangering himself considerably more frequently. So called civilized man of the Western world has befuddled and endangered himself to such a degree that he stands today on the very brink of destruction self destruction. The atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb and bacteriological warfare are not the overpessimistic prognostications of dreary Jeremiahs; they are terrible realities. The first has already been used. The other two are ready for use. That anyone should be willing to employ such instruments of destruction at all is commentary enough upon the sorry pass to which man has come.