We call it a 'body politic.' We speak of its head, its brain, its hands, its feet, its arteries and vital forces.

We know that no part of the nation can be hurt without all the other parts feeling in some degree the shock and sharing the loss or suffering.

What is true of the great man of the nation is true of our smaller communities, our States and cities and towns.

Each is an aggregate man, and the health and well-being of this man depend on the individual men and the groups and societies of men by which it is constituted.

There cannot be an unhealthy organ in the human system without a communication of disease to the whole body.