Civilisation : Its Cause and Cure 



research ; so shall you be at the end as near to a 

 knowledge and understanding of the sun itself — 

 which all this time you have left behind you, and 

 on which you have turned your back — as the 

 investigators of disease are to a knowledge and 

 understanding of what health is. The solar rays 

 illumine the outer world and give to it its unity 

 and entirety ; so in the inner world of each individual 

 possibly is there another Sun, which illumines 

 and gives unity to the man, and whose warmth 

 and light would permeate his system. Wait 

 upon the shining forth of this inward sun, give 

 free access and welcome to its rays of love, and 

 free passage for them into the common world 

 around you, and it may be you will get to know 

 more about health than all the books of medicine 

 contain, or can tell you. 



Or to take the former simile : it is the central 

 force of the Moon which acting on the great ocean 

 makes all its waters one, and causes them to rise 

 and fall in timely consent. But take your moon 

 away ; hey 1 now the tide is flowing too far down 

 this estuary ! Station your thousands with mops, 

 but it breaks through in channel and runlet! 

 Block it here, but it overflows in a neighboring 

 bay ! Appoint an army of swabs there, but to 

 what end ? The infinitest care along the fringe 

 of this great sea can never do, with all imaginable 

 dirt and confusion, what the central power does 

 easily, and with unerring grace and providence. 



And so of the great (the vast and wonderful) 

 ocean which ebbs and flows within a man — take 



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