CHAPTER IV 

 RURAL COOPERATION 



DR. EMIL HAHN, writing in the Mcdizinische Blaetter, 

 states that a man weighing 150 pounds is worth $7.87. 

 His fat has a value of $2.60, but there is scarcely enough iron 

 to make a nail an inch long or lime to whitewash a good 

 sized fowl-house. The phosphorus would put heads on 2,200 

 matches and the magnesium would provide a very pretty fire- 

 works display. Of albumen there is sufficient for a hundred 

 eggs, while of sugar one could secure only a teaspoonful and 

 of salt a mere pinch. 



Yet in spite of the low value of the several elements that 

 enter into man's body, the same is a marvelous combination, 

 the elements representing one combination and myriads of 

 cells another. The cells, for example, are so perfectly 

 adjusted to one another that under normal conditions they 

 fulfill in a very happy manner their functions. Nor is it an 

 easy task to throw them out of adjustment, since if some cells 

 refuse for a time to perform their proper functions other 

 related cells come to their rescue, so that one never notes 

 slight temporary discords in the activities of his cell system. 

 How different with man-made mechanisms ! To illustrate, 

 whenever, in an automobile, one spark plug fails to do its duty 

 or some other part is out of commission the whole machine 

 is handicapped and its progress is labored. Now, not only in 

 man's body is there perfect cooperation, but there is between 

 body and mind a higher cooperation, which represents the 

 complete human life. 



Society is man multiplied. In society there are four dis- 

 tinct classes : the producer, the manufacturer, the transporter 



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