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Why is it that the number of deaths from cancer has been increasing so rapidly in our times, and so disproportionately to the increase in population? Why is it that this is happening in all those parts of the world where civilization has been spread? Why is it that those people who live in the most modern way--the Americans--have the most cancer? Is there not a hint here that our present way of living contributes something to its cause?

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 3 : The Origins of Illness > # 110