-Cases in which these are
not available.--Case of the holder of these being no longer
disposed to make them.

Suppose a man forced to walk with his feet in the air and his head
downward. By using extremely energetic measures he might, for a while,
be made to maintain this unwholesome attitude, and certainly at the
expense of a bruised or broken skull; it is very probable, moreover,
that he would use his feet convulsively and kick terribly. But it is
certain that if this course were persisted in, the man would experience
intolerable pain and finally sink down; the blood would stop circulating
and suffocation would ensue; the trunk and limbs would suffer as much
as the head, and the feet would become numb and inert.--Such is more
or less the history of France under its Jacobin pedagogues; their rigid
theory and persistent brutality impose on the nation an attitude against
nature; consequently she suffers, and each day suffers more and more;
the paralysis increases; the functions get out of order and cease to
act, while the last and principal one,[4201] the most urgent, namely,
physical support and the daily nourishment of the living individual,
is so badly accomplished, against so many obstacles, interruptions,
uncertainties and deficiencies, that the patient, reduced to extreme
want, asks if to-morrow will not be worse than to-day, and whether his
semi-starvation will not end in complete starvation.

Nothing, apparently, is simpler, and yet really more complex, than
the physiological process by which, in the organized body, the proper
restorative food flows regularly to the spot where it is needed, among
the innumerably diverse and distant cells. In like manner, nothing is
simpler at the first glance, and yet more complex, than the economical
process by which, in the social organism, provisions and other articles
of prime necessity, flow of themselves to all points of the territory
where they are needed and within reach of each consumer. It is owing to
this that, in the social body as in the organized body, the terminal act
presupposes many others anterior to and co-ordinate with it, a series
of elaborations, a succession of metamorphoses, one elimination and
transportation after another, mostly invisible and obscure, but all
indispensable, and all of them carried out by infinitely delicate
organs, so delicate that, under the slightest pressure, they get out
of order, so dependent on each other that an injury