Tantalus, or, the future of man / by F.C.S. Schiller.
- Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
- Date:
- 1924
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Tantalus, or, the future of man / by F.C.S. Schiller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TANTALUS PROLOGUE : THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD When I read in Mr Haldane's Daeda¬ lus the wonderful things that Science was going to do for us,and in Mr Russell's Icarus how easily both we and it might come to grief in consequence, it at once became plain to me that of all the heroes of antiquity Tantalus would be the one best fitted to prognosticate the probable future of Man. For, if we interpret the history of Daedalus as meaning the collapse of Minoan civiliza¬ tion under the strain imposed on its [7]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18029504_0012.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
