Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forthcoming developments of society. Pictures of the future range from its complete lapse into barbarism presented by John Collier in Full Circle to the monotonously sanitary and inhuman order satirized by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Last week Herbert George Wells offered yet another conceivable fate for mankind with Things to Come, a scenario which London Films's Alexander Korda is now transmuting into a cinema. In his previous guesses (The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine), Mr. Wells has pictured the world depopulated by interplanetary warfare, dominated by a monstrous chicken, consumed by bugs, perishing...
...psychiatrists, whose duty it is to investigate the normal and diseased mind, and to serve mankind with our knowledge, feel impelled to address a serious word to you in our quality of physicians...
...seems to us that there is in the world a mentality which entails grave dangers to mankind, leading, as it may, to an evident war-psychosis...
...means that all destructive forces are set loose by mankind against itself...
...means the annihilation of mankind by technical science...