How disturbed and unhappy each member of such an aggregated man must be, you can at once perceive.
"If it is so in the voluntary man of larger form, how can it be different in the involuntary man, or the man of common society ?" "Of this great body you are a member.

In it you are sustained, and live by virtue of its wonderful organization.

From the blood circulating in its veins you obtain nutrition, and as its feet move forward, you are borne onward in the general progression.

From all its active senses you receive pleasure or intelligence; and yet this larger man of society is diseased--all see, all feel, all lament this--fearfully diseased.

It contains not a single member that does not suffer pain.