MARVELING AT MADNESS Our preceding century began with predictions of a future utopia just around the corner. The victories of science and industry would surely deliver new prosperity, new capabilities, and new answers to old problems. Even the First World War was labeled “The War to End All Wars” and popularly seen as a more civilized world’s final conflict. The twentieth century arrived with the marvel of the light bulb, but it left with the explosion of mass destruction. Somewhere along the way,