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superman and superwoman will persistently aim to ensure 

 such by proenvironal effort. 



But advancing side by side with all of this, on the hack- 

 neyed but trite principle that "cleanliness is next to godliness," 

 will be an ever advancing regard for household, civic, national, 

 and international hygiene and health. Already the care taken 

 in the schools, colleges, and universities of some lands, and 

 specially of the United States, for the health and physical 

 development of childhood and youth leaves little to be desired 

 for the future, except that all will have to be transferred from 

 the disintegrating field of competition, and placed in that of 

 social cooperation. 



Owing to local or international jealousies, a more extended 

 system of hygiene has been at times crippled, but even already 

 the united and usually successful efforts made to stamp out 

 cholera, yellow fever, and other infectious diseases in man, 

 or rabies, foot and mouth diseases, etc., amongst animals, 

 is a foretaste of the universal success that will attend such 

 efforts when nationalities are at one in aiding each other along 

 a peaceful and truly religious pathway. 



Thus the best, the most cleanly, and the most healtliful 

 populations will advance to front rank, alike through pro- 

 longed life of the individual, and improved health of the social 

 fabric. Health and vigor of body and mind bring an opti- 

 mistic feeling, an intense proenvironal striving toward higher 

 planes of living; disease and impairment of the bodily faculties 

 bring pessimism, gloomy fears, and a hopeless outlook for 

 the future. So the health of the individual, and healthy em- 

 ployment of every faculty of the individual, ensure national 

 vigor and proenvironal enthusiasm. 



As in every advocated improvement or system of improve- 

 ments, the conservative reactionary will declare that the above 

 are vague, ideal, and unrealizable purposes. But the world 

 has moved rapidly during the past twenty years to make many 

 of these purposes partially realized results, and the remainder 

 are events that are fast approaching to fulfillment. The 

 original, striking, and attractive program of Bellamy in "Look- 



