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it its energies. And if the structure and material 

 of the brain change their composition, whether 

 through less pressure in the circulation or loss of 

 purity in the blood, or that, owing to this change 

 in the plasma of the blood, some of these cerebral 

 elements, such as the neuroglia, the mielina, or the 

 intercellular cement, are altered, these properties 

 will disappear, and the intelligence no longer 

 realises the phenomenon of induction or radiation, 

 losing its equilibrium and its size. The mens sana 

 in corpore sano will not exist, and the period of 

 decadence will arrive, with all its physical and 

 moral miseries. 



The history of humanity proves how much time 

 has been wasted through want of a careful system. 



In the civilisation of the extreme East, the 

 Chinese were writing their annals forty centuries 

 ago, and 2200 years before Christ the emperor Yu 

 had obtained a knowledge of the writing of his 

 nine Chinese provinces, while the peoples of India 

 have left striking proofs of civilisation in their 

 philosophy and religion. 



The civilisations of the Mediterranean peoples 

 are even finer examples, as being better known, 

 for proving the flux and reflux of a civilisation 

 which has aimed at a foundation based on natural 

 law. If Egypt, Chaldea, Phoenicia, Greece, and 

 Rome have decayed in their civilisation, it was 



