4.78 Human Physiology. 



I have tried to suggest some methods, by which men may 

 prepare for a social organisation, or conditions of social life, 

 better adapted to secure their welfare, than those which now 

 exist around us, and to indicate the modes in which highe 

 forms of society may have their beginnings. In this, as in all 

 things, we must follow the natural order. The wide branching, 

 perfect tree grows from its microscopic germ, by gradual addi- 

 tions. The human body, the type of a perfect human society, 

 grows also from its germ, developing, expanding, and perfecting 

 itself, from conception to birth, from birth to maturity. The 

 laws of life and health, of training and education, of moral and 

 spiritual development, for the individual, are the same laws 

 that must govern the inception, growth, and perfection of a true 

 society. A community requires the same order, the same jus- 

 tice, the same watchful care, the same harmonious adaptation 

 of part to part each to all and all to each that exists in the 

 healthy human body. The blood which is the life must freely 

 flow to every member. The brain, through its nerves of sensa- 

 tion and motion, must feel all and govern all. Every member 

 of society must have his rights, and the satisfaction of all real 

 requirements, all the conditions of a useful and happy existence, 

 just as every organ of the body must have its nervous force, it* 

 proper nutriment, its natural activity. The spiritual life corres- 

 ponds to the material and the life of society corresponds to 

 that of the individual. And individual and social diseases have 

 the same correspondence. There are social dyspepsias and 

 constipations, social fevers, social paralyses, social insanities 



In the human system, healthy, right-acting organs make, a 

 healthy body, and a healthy constitution forms and preserves 

 healthy organs. So of man and society. Every leaf works for 

 the tree, and the tree gives its sap to every leaf. Through 

 nature this rule holds good the law of all for each and each 

 for all. All things work together for good in every true organ- 

 isation, and what is best for each is best for all. The law is 



