364 HEALTH. 



originated by new physicians of good. Thus the private circulates 

 into the public, and vice versa, and to dream of any Owenite reform, 

 is to postulate a state which is desirable, but by that means, unat- 

 tainable. The " best possible circumstances" mean the best possi- 

 ble brain and heart, sent by God to the occasion. But again, on 

 the other hand, without new circumstances there is no new hope for 

 man. 



Were it worth while (which it is not) we might follow out the 

 other organs in their exactions ; and group the production of man 

 around the generative parts ; his first endowments around the 

 organs of the senses ; and so forth. But enough has now been 

 said, to show that the human frame is a natural method of thought, 

 even in the social and political spheres. Indeed, to the eye of faith 

 it is a great sanitary prophecy, unfilled by the mind, as the world is 

 unfilled by the race. And in this respect also it is an urgence of 

 immortality. For health, or the whole inhabitation of man in 

 the body and the world, is an expansion and a deed so great, 

 that no time can exhaust it, or work out any final equation of the 

 correspondence : the fitting may go on for ever, not for the race 

 alone, but for each individual. We repeat also that each end of the 

 chain of health is contagious in a universal sense ; that a renewed 

 man and society are not only consciously, but organically also, work- 

 ing for the perfection of every climate, for the unfreezing of every 

 ice-lock, for the fertilization of every soil ; for the extinction of mon- 

 sters and the increment of creations ; and for the birth of more 

 men, and new men, who come as cultivators in their seasons. The 

 greatest problems (pp. 338, 239, 316) are not intangible; but it is 

 ordained that our little frames shall give nature the signals of 

 change, and ring the bells of new eras. 



This body corporeal then, when the light is set shining through 

 it, projects into our space new social and political bodies, one after 

 another ; the desiderata of health call about them the planets of 

 health, and geography and astronomy are its satellites. It is none 

 of our doing that the subject has this shape ', the sanitary reformers 

 have to answer for it ; for it is they that have shown, in their first 

 days of existence, that man, in his body equally as in his brain, is 

 by nature a factory of Utopias. 



