Excerpt from Microbes and Men, to-Morrow's Topics Series The books aim at a large interpretation of the meaning of life. They call before the footlights, in front of the curtain, that playwright of all our affairs, - the microbe. Biology teaches that the determining factors in all lives belong to heredity and environment, but overlooks the fact brought out in these notes, that heredity and environment are dominated by the microbe. We became conscious of a step in progress when we were instructed not to look at men directly, but through the lenses of heredity and environment. These notes compound the microscope. They oblige us to focus through the lens of the microbe, when adjusting heredity and environment for purposes of obtaining a clear view of mankind. We are not far enough along with our knowledge of the chemistry of metabolism to describe concretely the influence of microbic toxins in our every-day affairs. Men who know most about the subject are the ones who are most afraid to speak at this' moment of rapidly changing knowledge. Such commendable caution belongs to the accurately scientific mind, but it is time right now for some sort of an angel to fly in where prudent men fear to tread. This idea gives me as large a charter as the wind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.