"On this broad but synthetic continent of plastics" — Synthetica! — "the countries march right out of the natural world..."

"... that wild area of firs and rubber plantations, upper left – into the illimitable world of the molecule. It’s a world boxed only by the cardinal points of the chemical compass – carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen."

Fortune Magazine, 1940.

I don't quite get it, but you might want to put some libertarians on it.