The shrinkage of the vital organs is like the shrinkage of capital and values.

When the starved man is faced with food he can not set in and eat a regular dinner.

He must be fed on a teaspoonful of soup, and it is many months before his muscles come back, his organs regain their normal size and he is a well-fed man again.

So it is with the industrial state.

It can be starved by crop failures, by war waste or by labor slacking on the job.