Aurora, agosto de 1982, pags. 4 e 5, ano IV, no 9 Duque de Caxias-RJ.Deolindo Amorim nasceu na Bahia em 23 de janeiro de 1906 e desencarnou no Rio de Janeiro, em 24 de abril de 1984. E considerado, ao lado de Carlos Imbassahy e Herculano Pires, um dos maiores pensadores espiritas do Brasil. Jornalista, sociologo, escritor espirita de estilo professoral, extremamente didatico e elegante, Deolindo foi um dos maiores divulgadores do Espiritismo como cultura e voltado para a analise de questoes da atualidade. Fundou o Instituto de Cultura Espirita do Brasil (ICEB), foi um dos idealizadores da Associacao Brasileira de Jornalistas e Escritores Espiritas (Abrajee) e gracas ao seu empenho, em conjunto com a Liga Espirita do Brasil, realizou-se no Rio de Janeiro, em 1949, o II Congresso Espirita Pan-Americano.Obras: Espiritismo e Criminologia; O Espiritismo e as Doutrinas Espiritualistas; Africanismo e Espiritismo; O Espiritismo e os Problemas Humanos; Ideias e Reminiscencias Espiritas; Allan Kardec, o Homem e o Meio, dentre outras.Ethics and ProgressAs the human body and the animal body are subject to diseases incurable and often painful, also the social organism ill small or large scale. Therefore, there is a discipline that just deals with society's diseases: Social Pathology. It is a matter primarily of interest to sociologists, anthropologists and experts in Social Psychology.But one should not establish an analogy between the ills of society and diseases of human beings, individually, as has been done in other times. Yes, in other times, because there was in certain intellectual circles, so to speak at the height of the positivist conception, the idea that social phenomena have correspondence with biological phenomena. Then, the individual diseases and the society could be considered similarly. And it does not hurt to remember that, under the influence of this thinking, psychology was "framed" in biology for a long time, having become autonomous science at the expense of much discussion and thus the strength of the same things.It is true that society, with its imbalances contributes much to get sick individuals and groups. , Is now live, for example, in a constant state of tension, because the majority is becoming concerned about the pollution in large urban centers, the "skyrocketing" cost of living, insecurity in the streets, on buses, at work and even indoors, where everyone should have a tranquil haven after the daily struggle of the breadwinner.Someone has said that we are under a "civilization of fear." Really. It has been afraid of everything today, because the dangers accompanying the footsteps of all men and women, young and old. It is inevitable, therefore, that the impact of one's social unrest causes very deep emotional upheavals in his personal life and pave the way for neuroses, cardiac disorders, ulcers training etc. And if the human element is already a bit biased, obviously still be faster the effect of social environment, whose friction affect the nervous system of many people. However, you can harvest the through current studies disclosed, to some extent there is a relationship between the social pathology and the individual condition."Diseases of society," as some