Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1466

1466. But even if the state has not yet reached the above-mentioned adult stage, then it is, however, from a physical point of view already so close to this stage that it certainly could in fact take over the nourishment and support of the continued existence of its own flesh and blood. Where it has nonetheless still not felt called upon to liberate its progenitors, the "parents", from what is its own duty, it is nothing less than a kind of primitive "son". It therefore maintains within its structure an as-yet rather large proletariat. It uses great amounts of capital or sums of money on things that are certainly cultural but are less important to the survival of a healthy society than the area of society that has to do with the reproduction and survival of the people. For this reason in such a society there are less important occurrences or things that are "pampered", quite without regard to the cost of this preferential treatment. These occurrences become thereby disproportionately large, while other occurrences or spheres in society are proletarised and oppressed. This is the reason why the so-called "civilised states" consist mainly of a possessing or propertied upper class and a more or less impoverished lower class. Similarly the cities of a civilised state as a consequence of this can also be divided partly into large, splendid industrial areas, boulevards and promenades, luxury villas, palaces and castles, and partly into huge poor districts, where all kinds of physical and mental ill health dwell and further the decline of the proletariat.