The Pleasant Aspects of the Current Scarcity

contribution to fill the following evening, as the member who was scheduled to speak that evening had asked to be excused. I initially declined the request due to a lack of suitable material; however, in the afternoon, it occurred to me that one might provide a framework for that calculation, and the views on the scarcity based upon it, by which it might be made somewhat suitable for a lecture in a Museum. But even after working on it, I felt that the subject was not truly appropriate for a Museum, as neither a scientific nor an aesthetic side could be extracted from it for treatment. I consoled myself with the thought that the high human interest which the