Notes 7 . daily supply of calories increased: Paul Davies, “An Historical Perspec-
tive from the Green Revolution to the Gene Evolution,” Nutrition Reviews
6 , no. 6 ( June 003 ): S 4 – 34 , https://doi.org/ 0 . 30 /nr. 003 .jun.S 4 -S 34.
. impending doom awaiting hundreds of millions: Paul Sabin, The
Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth’s Future (New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 0 3 ), .
3. science and technology would overcome: Julian Simon and
David M. Gardner, “World Food Needs and ‘New Proteins,’” 0 – , cited
in: Sabin, The Bet, .
4. gentleman farmer from Vermont: Coy Cross II, Justin Smith Morrill:
Father of the Land-Grant Colleges (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State Uni-
versity Press, 999 ), 3.
. deficient agricultural knowledge and skills: Cross, Justin Smith
Morrill, 79.
6. Europe was investing in agricultural colleges: Coy Cross II, “De-
mocracy, the West, and Land-Grant Colleges,” 8 , in Daniel Fogel and Eliza-
beth Maison-Huddle, eds., Precipice or Crossroads? Where America’s Great Pub-
lic Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second
Century (New York: State University of New York Press, 0 ).
7. “We want no fancy farmers”: Christopher Lucas, American Higher
Education: A History, nd ed. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 006 ),
4.
8. “an unconstitutional robbing of the Treasury: Cross, Justin Smith
Morrill, 8 .
9. know is the Bible and figgers: Allan Nevins, The State Universities and
Democracy (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 96 ), 38 , https://archive.
org/details/stateuniversitie 00 nevi.
0. character of both Governments: Gerhard Peters and John Woolley,
“James Buchanan: Veto Message,” American Presidency Project, February 4 ,
8 9 , http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid= 68368.
. “The method of science: Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, The Demon-
Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Ballantine Books,
997 ), 6.
. The discovery of vitamins: Richard Semba, “The Discovery of the
Vitamins,” International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research 8 , no.
(October 0 ): 3 0 – , https://doi.org/ 0 . 0 4 / 0300 - 983 /a 000 4.
3. population boomed by over 110 million: US Census Bureau, “POP
Culture: 860 ” and “POP Culture: 940 ,” last modified July 8 , 0 7 , https:
//www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/fast_facts/ 860 _fast
_facts.html.