QUO VADIMUS? TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW SERIES _DÆDALUS, or Science and the Future_ By J. B. S. Haldane _ICARUS, or The Future of Science_ By the Hon. Bertrand Russell, F.R.S. _THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST_ By F. G. Crookshank, M.D. _Fully Illustrated_ _WIRELESS POSSIBILITIES_ By Prof. A. M. Low. _With four Diagrams_ _NARCISSUS, or An Anatomy of Clothes_ By Gerald Heard. _Illustrated_ _TANTALUS, or The Future of Man_ By Dr. F. C. S. Schiller _THE PASSING OF THE PHANTOMS_ By Prof. C. J. Patten, M.A., M.D., Sc.D., F.R.A.I. _CALLINICUS, A Defence of Chemical Warfare_ By J. B. S. Haldane _QUO VADIMUS? Some Glimpses of the Future_ By E. E. Fournier d’Albe, D.Sc., F.Inst.P. _THE CONQUEST OF CANCER_ By H. W. S. Wright, M.S., F.R.C.S. _HYPATIA, or Woman and Knowledge_ By Dora Russell (Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell) _LYSISTRATA, or Woman’s Future and Future Woman_ By A. M. Ludovici _WHAT I BELIEVE_ By the Hon. Bertrand Russell, F.R.S. _In Preparation_ _PERSEUS, of Dragons_ By H. F. Scott Stokes, M.A. _THE FUTURE OF SEX_ By Rebecca West _THE EVOCATION OF GENIUS_ By Alan Porter _AESCULAPIUS, or Disease and The Man_ By F. G. Crookshank, M.D. _Other Volumes in Preparation_ E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY QUO VADIMUS? SOME GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE BY E. E. FOURNIER d’ALBE D.Sc., F.Inst.P. _Author of The Life of Sir William Crookes, The Electron Theory, The Moon-Element, etc._ [Illustration] NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 681 FIFTH AVENUE Copyright 1925 By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY _All Rights Reserved_ _Printed in the United States of America_ QUO VADIMUS? Sitting at my desk by a cosy and up-to-date gas fire on a foggy day, with tufts of mist steadily rolling up from the swollen waters of the wise old Thames, I try to realize that I am travelling through space at a rate of over a thousand miles a minute, on board a minor planet in forced revolution round a vast white-hot globe nearly a hundred million miles away.