Excerpt from Foundations of Pyschiatry This state of affairs can be simply illustrated by a social analogy. Suppose the bakers should get together for the purpose of standardizing the size and the price of a loaf of bread. If the necessary changes to this end were inconsiderable they would not attract attention, would even not be known about by the majority of the people. The changes would be, to all intents and purposes, local, confined to the group of bakers. Such a change is com parable to an inflammation with abscess formation of the arm, for instance, without any systemic symptoms and with a minimum Of interference with the function of the arm. Now suppose, on the contrary, that the bakers should agree among themselves to materially raise the price of bread or decrease the Size of the loaf, or that they Should strike for higher wages and for a time at least stop production. Then it can be readily seen that'their action would cease to have only local significance but on the contrary would become of great social importance. To return to the anal ogybf the abscess Of the arm. If instead of remaining a strictly localized affair general infection were to result the patient would feel ill and would develop mental symptoms, for instance along with the feeling of illness he would be depressed and perhaps with the onset of fever he might become delirious. In other. Words, just so soon as the abscess produces a general infection just so soon does there appear a total, that is, a mental reaction; and just so soon as the action of the bakers ceases to be purely local does it tend to become is, social. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.