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The best way for me to present it briefly will be by means of a number
of typical quotations, in which he indicates the nature of disease and
shows that such is the state--mental, physical, social, and
moral--induced in man by the organization of enforced labor and the
whole of the adopted method of making citizens out of wild beasts:--

When we come to analyze the conception of disease, physical or
mental, in society or the individual, it evidently means ... loss
of unity. Health, therefore, should mean unity. ... The idea should
be a positive one--a condition of the body in which it is an
entirety, a unity, a central force maintaining that condition; and
disease being the break-up--or break-down--of that entirety into
multiplicity.... Thus in a body, the establishment of an
insubordinate centre--a boil, a tumor, the introduction and spread
of a germ with innumerable progeny throughout the system, the
enlargement out of all reason of an existing organ--means disease.
In the mind, disease begins when any passion asserts itself as an
independent centre of thought and action.... What is a taint in the
mind is also a taint in the body. The stomach has started the
original idea of becoming itself the centre of the human system.
The sexual organs may start a similar idea. Here are distinct
threats, menaces made against the central authority--against the
Man himself. For the man must rule, or disappear; it is impossible
to imagine a man presided over by a Stomach--a walking Stomach,
using hands, feet, and all the other members merely to carry it
from place to place, and serve its assimilative mania. So of the
Brain, or any other organ; for the Man is no organ, resides in no
organ, but is the central life ruling and radiating among all
organs, and assigning them their parts to play. Disease, then, in
mind or body, is ... the abeyance of a central power and the growth
of insubordinate centres--life in each creature being conceived of
as a continual exercise of energy or conquest, by which external or
antagonistic forces (or organisms) are brought into subjection and
compelled into the service of the creature, or are thrown off as
harmful to it. Thus, by way of illustration, we find that plants or
animals, when in good health, have a remarkable power of throwing
off the attacks of any parasite