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“Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.”

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... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have…

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Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

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...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

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Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.

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