IS CIVILIZATION A DISEASE? By STANTON COIT BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1917 COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published May 1917 .BARBARA WEINSTOCK LECTURES ON THE MORALS OF TRADE This series will contain essays by representative scholars and men of affairs dealing with the various phases of the moral law in its bearing on business life under the new economic order, first delivered at the University of California on the Weinstock foundation. IS CIVILIZATION A DISEASE? I. TRADE TYPICAL OF CIVILIZATION IN choosing "The Morals of Trade" as the general title.