Cover of 1948 book We Human Chemicals: the Knack of Getting Along with Everybody by Thomas Dreier, showing each person as analogous to an element on the periodic table. |
“One night the answer came to me like a revelation. I sat down at my typewriter and wrote a brief essay entitled “Human Chemicals”. It was published in a magazine of limited circulation. There were so many requests for it that it was brought out in pamphlet form. In fact, seven editions were printed over a period of years.”