ing are illusory, failing to depress the insect population
as expected, sometimes actually building it up, for with
the destruction of part of the population, there is a com-
pensating increase in fecundity, fertility, and survival.
These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored
by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought
to their task no "high minded orientation" - no humility
before the vast forces with which they tamper.

The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arro-
gance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philos-
ophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the con-
venience of man. The concepts and practices of applied
entomology for the most part date from that Stone Age of
science. It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive
a science has armed itself with the most modern and ter-
rible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects
it has also turned them against the earth.

It is no longer our obligation to endure.