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 @8599d6ab I love this. This is very much how I think about doing social science, as an attempt to always look at systems and not to be fixated on individual effects but the harmony of the whole 
 @8a2094ca 
Great point! 

By absolutely sheer coincidence (and definitely not because I'm any type of well read fancy pants), I was just diving into another old book whose last chapter you might be interested in:

The wisdom of the body.
Walter Cannon, 1932
(This book was the first to coin the term "homeostasis" and introduce fight-or-flight).
Available via the internet archive.

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