TAILIEUCHUNG - Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure

We find ourselves today in the midst of a somewhat peculiar state of society, which we call Civilisation, but which even to the most optimistic among us does not seem altogether desirable. Some of us, indeed, are inclined to think that it is a kind of disease which the various races of man have to pass through--as children pass through measles or whooping cough; but if it is a disease, there is this serious consideration to be made, that while History tells us of many nations that have been attacked by it, of many that have succumbed to it, and of some that are still. | Civilisation Its Cause and Cure 1 Civilisation Its Cause and Cure by Edward Carpenter I The friendly and flowing savage who is he Is he waiting for civilisation or is he past it and mastering it --Whitman We find ourselves today in the midst of a somewhat peculiar state of society which we call Civilisation but which even to the most optimistic among us does not seem altogether desirable. Some of us indeed are inclined to think that it is a kind of disease which the various races of man have to pass through--as children pass through measles or whooping cough but if it is a disease there is this serious consideration to be made that while History tells us of many nations that have been attacked by it of many that have succumbed to it and of some that are still in the throes of it we know of no single case in which a nation has fairly recovered from and passed through it to a more normal and healthy condition. In other words the development of human society has never yet that we know of passed beyond a certain definite and apparently final stage in the process we call Civilisation at that stage it has always succumbed or been arrested. Of course it may at first sound extravagant to use the word disease in connection with Civilisation at all but a little thought should show that the association is not ill-grounded. To take the matter on its physical side first I find that in Mullhall s Dictionary of Statistics 1884 the number of accredited doctors and surgeons in the United Kingdom is put at over 23 000. If the extent of the national sickness is such tht we require 23 000 medical men to attend to us it must surely be rather serious And they do not cure us. Wherever we look today in mansion or in slum we see the features and hear the complaints of ill-health the difficulty is really to find a healthy person. The state of the modern civilised man in this respect-our coughs colds mufflers dread of a waft of chill air anything but creditable and it seems to be .

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