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Children are healthy and jolly when they breathe 
pure air, and, being properly nourished and brought 
up, are growing into sound and able men and women, 
adequately clothed meanwhile and sheltered in their 
homes from the elements. Similarly men and women 
who are physically and mentally fit and blessed with 
the right amount of congenial work are very much 
to be envied. When the right time comes, sueh 
children and adults alike drop off to sleep at night 
and enjoy the relaxation that their leisure hours and 
holidays afford. 
Plants likewise are healthy and beautiful when 
in the fresh air and properly nourished. Although 
we must recollect that, unlike ourselves, they do not 
eat ready-made food, but have to manufacture it for 
themselves. They, too, grow from pretty youngsters to 
splendid adults, they are likewise protected according to 
their needs from the dangers to which they are exposed, 
and they have their periods of rest and quiescence. 
Up to this point, then, we have found that the 
life of a plant has very much in common with our 
own life, and before I conclude this chapter I want to 
point out that these five Factors have to do with and 
conserve the life of the individual person or plant ; 
they do not of themselves provide for the continuance 
of the race after the death of the individuals of which 
it is, at any given time, composed ; and since all of 
us and all the animals and all the flowering plants must 
die sooner or later, some provision has to be made 
for filling the death gaps, lest the race should suffer 
the fate of the individual and die out completely. 
In my next chapter, therefore, I shall begin to 
deal with those Factors that concern and provide for 
the life of the species from generation to generation. 
