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lives the forces to nourish and repair his organic 

 losses, that is, from light, air, all nourishment, and 

 the necessary medium, he might expend vast energy 

 without detriment to his health. A sound man is 

 a great transformer of forces, but provided that 

 formula N be intact, for then his affinity and 

 activity would easily transform the cosmic forces 

 that surround him; but if, on the contrary, the 

 formula is N', he has neither the same activity nor 

 affinity as before, and transforms and produces less 

 force, because formula N' has in its structure less 

 potential force, produces less living force, but, on 

 the contrary, more toxic products, that diminish 

 the vital forces. Weak people in human life are 

 those in whom the violence of what is wrongly 

 called the struggle for life has altered the normal 

 rhythm of nutrition in their progenitors, their off- 

 spring being weak or wearied heirs. 



Here we may repeat that, so long as an absurd 

 regimen prevails, monstrous consequences must 

 result. 



The economic condition does not choose its 

 victims only among those who have been disin- 

 herited by fortune, but also among the moneyed 

 classes. Money is of so perverse a nature that it 

 wrecks the most beautiful and natural feelings. 



The dramas and tragedies caused by money are 

 innumerable. Love often prostitutes itself, and in 



