But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.
Rene DubosOne may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
Rene DubosBiologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.
Rene DubosHuman life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.
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