228 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



evolution, destined to die. On the morrow this 

 progress will be, like all others, indefinite. 

 Humanity is not only a rhythmic force, but is 

 subject to the great laws of energy, continuity, and 

 persistence. 



Money the curse of so many, even of those who 

 have it and feel its objections, because they see 

 every day the anxieties it causes, the inconsistency 

 and instability that follow as a basis of the family 

 and of society, the immoralities to which it lends 

 itself, the vexations it causes to the most worthy, 

 who turn to suicide as a last resource money and 

 property are what change the course of history by 

 retrograding it; they are the very things that 

 change man's health ; civilisations decline and fall 

 for the same reason that man degenerates from 

 not finding a suitable medium for his development. 

 (See " Health and General Laws of Mechanics," 

 p. 120.) 



The progressive and harmonious development of 

 the human super-organism requires conformity to 

 natural laws. 



I do not propose to enumerate one single 

 instance of the infinite ills and sufferings of this 

 social medium; that these lie in the ambient, 

 everything proclaims ; every kind of literature, the 

 novel, the stage, the press, and, best of all, medicine 

 itself, all this constitutes an inexhaustible arsenal 



