CHAPTER VIL 



MAN. THE DfSTDJCT OF LIFE AXD THE IX5TIXCT 

 OF DEATH. 



The miseries at bmnanity: i. Disease; :. OBd age. Old age 

 considered as a duonic disease Its occasional cause. 5. 



The disharmonies of human nateie: 4- The instinct of life 



MAX'S unhappy plight is the constant theme of 

 philosophies and religions. Without referring to its 

 moral basis, it has a physical basis due to four 

 causes the physical imperfection or disharmony of 

 nature, dkrena*, old age. and death or rather of 

 three, for what we call old age is perhaps a simple 

 <KjaBaaR- These are the great sorrows of man. the 

 sources of all his woes. Disease attacks him, old age 

 awaits him, and death must tear him from all the 

 ties which he has formed. All his pleasures are 

 poisoned by the certain knowledge that they last 

 but for a moment, that they are as precarious as his 

 health, his youth, and his hie itself. 



DISEASE. 



Disease, frequent, constant, and inevitable as it is, 



is, however, nothing but a fact outside the natural 



order. Its character is clearly accidental, and it 



interrupts the normal cycle of evolution- Medical 



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