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Excerpt from The Social Diseases: Tuberculosis, Syphilis, Alcoholism, Sterility
Like the animals, human societies possess the functions of nutrition, relation, and reproduction; and the investigation of these functions, which may be described as social physiology, was ingeniously worked out, some fifty years ago, by Herbert Spencer.
On the other hand, just as the animals are prone to various diseases, so human societies may suffer from sickness, and as there is a social physiology there is also a social pathology.
In the animals the malady of the individual con sists of a deterioration of the cells whose aggregation forms the animal organism. Similarly a social malady consists of the aggregate of the maladies of the individuals - the cells - who make up a society.
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