144 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



Micbelet referred in requesting that medicine should 

 mean "justice and morality." 



In the investigation of the subsoil through the 

 unhealthy slavery of the miner, in the life of the 

 poor agriculturist and field labourer, in workshops, 

 in the main unsanitary, in the life of cities where 

 abound whole districts the dwellings of which are 

 hotbeds of infection, and in the majority of towns, 

 small and great, where hygiene does not exist, is to 

 be found an everlasting conspiracy against the 

 health of man. Want of air and light, scarce or 

 bad food, as well as excessive labour and fatigue, 

 are so many more factors that vie with one another 

 in altering the natural laws that should combine for 

 the well-being of humanity. 



Bear in mind the conditions that, according to 

 Eamon y Cajal, contribute to proper mental 

 function, and with what facility they may be dis- 

 turbed, not forgetting that the nervous cell is the 

 grand element, the origin of all psychic energy, and 

 we shall understand how monstrous is the present 

 state of society, subjected to an environment so 

 arbitrary and brutal as is its economical condition, 

 the sole base of the social edifice. Thus is human 

 personality destroyed and denied the possibility of 

 accomplishing its evolution. 



The progress of humanity consists in the pre- 

 dominance of the psychic quality ; but this require- 



