"There are few questions of greater import than those relating to the forces which are moulding the innate qualities of the human race. There is no knowledge which it is more important to have widely diffused than the knowledge of the means by which our human inheritance can be improved" 

Irish man of letters, Frank O’Connor is loved and admired for the wit and warmth he has shown in his stories. Mr. O’Connor, who has taught several courses on the writing of fiction, is now living in the United Stales.

Biochemical discoveries about a disease that causes idiocy hold fascinating philosophical implications. Those implications, growing out of research into the origins of a disease called phenylketonuria, are here discussed by Canadian-born D. W. Woolley, who has been associated with the Rockefeller Institute in New York City for twenty-five years and is currently professor of biochemistry there. He has worked primarily with vitamins and hormones and with the development of new means for treatment of diseases.