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Show 118 Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters True, - man is a noble creation, possessing many characteristics which separate him from the animals. In the long struggle and rough road over which man has passed in his development of language, reason, moral conduct, social heritag-e, and phlloso phy, he has been subjected to. the same forces and natural laws which have acted upon other orqanisms. These same forces of nature still act upon all living orqanisms, and if they are to. re main alive, there are definite requirements which must be ful filled. In the sco.pe .of this short paper, the following are suq gested as some of the problems which the human species must deal with: The environment must be overcome which includes the necessity for food and the need for self-preservation: there must be a propagation of the species and a maintainance of numbers of a higher quality; and there must be a world unity developed in which there will be an exchange of scientific thinking by man kind far in advance of anything of the past. The Need [or Food and Selj-Preseroetion In the first instance, man has gro.wn during the past sev eral centuries beyond the environmental forces which are at work as checks en all infra-human species. Man new finds that he is net amenable to. the same environmental forces as ether species, which is due largely to. his conceptual thinking, language, means of communication and transportation. The impinging action of many of the environmental forces, from which all ether species have net been able to. escape, have been to. a extent breught large under control of man. Improvements in the development of power, in the aft of agriculture and in sanitation and medicine, burst the old .ties which had dominated man, really making him free. .Man has ceased to. fear fer want of feed because of the application of science to. agriculture and industry. Tools for agriculture and advancements in plant and animal breeding re sulted in great increases in feed production en the old and new areas of the earth's surface. It has leng been recognized that feed and nutrition have .played important roles in determining the extent and many of the biological charcteristics of the race. Contrary to. Malthusian thinking, subsistence, in many parts of the world, has kept pace, and even passed population increase. In ether great segments of the population, however, feed produc tion is inadequate, due mainly to. the lack of the application of science to. agriculture. Our knowledge of nutrition, aleng with scientific agriculture and modern transportation, should prac tically rem eve the fear of starvation from the human species. We now knew, thanks to. science, that the diet of man must contain adequate amounts of carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vita mins, and proteins. The proteins are very important since it is out of these that most of the tissues of the body are made. |
