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that is, a return to primitive conditions. Moreover, 

 it is becoming each day more and more clear that 

 many other physical disorders are best treated in 

 this manner; and so strongly is this idea gaining 

 ground that modern hospitals are providing them- 

 selves with facilities for giving many of their patients 

 the opportunity of living out of doors the greater part 

 of the time, in summer and winter, by day and by 

 night. 



The accumulation of food supplies in response to 

 the undeniable stimuli of appetite brings satisfac- 

 tion to man in various ways. First, it supplies the 

 source of free gratification of appetite for the indi- 

 vidual himself, and for those who are most nearly 

 related to him. Secondly, it leads to an increase in 

 his personal importance in the community, which 

 is gratifying to that form of self-consciousness that 

 derives pleasure from the sense of recognition of 

 one's powers ; that is, what we call vanity. More- 

 over, the actual increase of personal power and 

 influence is one of the most intelligible effects of 

 this primitive form of capitalism. Finally, there 

 is a distinctively pleasurable sensation which, in 

 some degree at least, arises not only in primitive, 

 but in modern, men from the sense of exclusive 

 ownership; that is, the pleasure that comes from 

 being arbitrarily able to influence the actions of 

 others, through the ability to exclude them from 

 that which has been appropriated. This is a very 

 deep-seated feeling an outgrowth of the instinct 



