CHAPTER VII 



HEALTH AND THE GENERAL LAWS OF MECHANICS 



HEALTH, that is, individual soundness, presupposes 

 organic and psychic adaptation the mens sana in 

 corpore sano. 



The perfect correspondence of mechanical, chemi- 

 cal, and biological laws with the natural laws, is 

 what makes man healthy. 



When humanity lives in a normal medium, the 

 adaptation of its chemical and biological organisa- 

 tion must be more stable than in any other, 

 whether crystal, plant, or animal, from the means 

 upon which man relies in order to effect this 

 correspondence. 



Health must be man's normal condition ; if not, 

 he is not living in a normal medium, but in one in 

 which the order and precision of natural law have 

 been changed. An egg, in order to develop the 

 germ it contains, requires not merely a particular 

 number of days but a suitable temperature, without 

 which its development is not possible. Human 



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