Civilisation : Its Cause and Cure 



over a long period their insubordination may be 

 a necessary condition of human progress, yet during 

 all such time they are at war with each other and 

 with the central Will ; the man is torn and tor- 

 mented, and is not happy. 



And when I speak thus separately of the mind 

 and body, it must be remembered, as already 

 said, that there is no strict line between them ; 

 but probably every affection or passion of the 

 mind has its correlative in the condition of the 

 body — though this latter may or may not be 

 easily observable. Gluttony is a fever of the 

 digestive apparatus. What is a taint in the mind 

 is also a taint in the body. The stomach has 

 started the original idea of becoming itself the 

 centre of the human system. The sexual organs 

 may start a similar idea. Here are distinct threats, 

 menaces made against the central authority — against 

 the Man himself. For the man must rule or 

 disappear ; it is impossible to imagine a man 

 presided over by a Stomach — a walking Stomach, 

 using hands, feet, and all other members merely 

 to carry it from place to place, and serve its assimila- 

 tive mania. We call such a one an Hog. [And 

 thus in the theory of Evolution we see the place 

 of the hog, and all other animals, as fore-runners 

 or off-shoots of special faculties in Man, and why 

 the true man, and rightly, has authority over all 

 animals, and can alone give them their place in 

 creation.] 



So of the Brain, or any other organ ; for the 

 Man is no organ, resides in no organ, but is the 



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