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In all probability the problem of the right of resistance will become progressively more urgent. The utopian hope of radical pacifists that the abolition of armies and official wars would suffice to secure final and lasting peace, collapses because of the ontological structure of human nature as a result of which everybody in his bodily nature is restricted to a point in space and time, exposed to the attack of a physical force and dependent on power for effective protection. When the ancient Ro…

1. Origin and history. This vague expression, coined approximately a century ago, needs to be defined, chiefly because medicine over the past century has reached the level of a methodical science. All the older material is outdated and of interest now only for historians and ethnologists. The figure of the priest-doctor found at the beginning of the development was a result of the conviction that man in his birth (heredity) and death was especially subject to higher powers, which even medicine had …