FAMILY RESPONSIBILITY 163 



And what are towns and cities but groups of families 

 crowded together, ever influencing each other for better or 

 for worse ? No wonder, then, that in every land the future 



Great Grandparents 



Everyman 



OUR ANCESTORS 



Notice how the ancestors of each one of us (that is, Everyman) double with each 

 generation that reaches back through parents, grandparents, great-grandparentsTefc. 

 It is from this unnumbered host of ancestors that we receive both our physical and 

 our social inheritance. An old Shinto maxim of Japan is " Let men know by your 

 deeds who your ancestors were " 



of the nation depends on the health of the bodies and the 

 health of the minds of its families. 



This is so true that, for nations and cities as well as for 

 the families themselves, the motto of modern life is," Protect 

 yourselves and the next generation by obeying the laws of 

 family health." 



