PROLOGUE

THE WORTH OF MAN

Probably he does not know his real value proved in the laboratory by chemists. A long series of experiments proved that his chemical composition when assessed in terms of currency, he is simply nothing. Listen to the report of the analysts of his body. They established - if he weighs ten stones i.e. 140 lbs inclusive of the whole mass of all ingredients and chemicals stuffed into his body, there is in him ten galloons of water; lime, enough to wash a chicken coop; fat, enough to making seven bars of soap; sulphur, enough to making a packet of tables; iron, enough to making a two inch long nail; lead, enough to making nine thousand pencils and phosphorous, enough to making two hundred match sticks. 

The market value of this stuff can be expressed only in a two digit figure, provided they are detached, and for that process, more than a five digit figure is to be expended. Is the trial worthy of undertaking? Does it not border on impracticability'? Even if one succeeds, would he not become a laughing stock? Hence hip corpse is consigned to flames en masse, or buried under ground for worms to be fed upon. 

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