“Now clearly there exists the distinction between energetic thriving and atrophy, that is, one can say, between health and sickness, even in communities, peoples, states. Accordingly the question is not far removed: How does it happen that no scientific medicine has ever developed in this sphere, a medicine for nations and supranational communities?”

- Edmund Husserl, “Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man” (“The Vienna Lecture,” 1935)