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is a matter deeper than convention or training. 

 At any rate, I am prepared to discuss that question 

 on a basis of fact, if I am challenged. 



Now to save innately dirty people from themselves, 

 is to rear in increasing numbers a race of an undesir- 

 able type. At present, apparently, in the plenitude 

 of our modern wisdom, we are prepared to compel the 

 dirty to live within certain limits of cleanliness. We 

 have set aside officials for the purpose. Doubtless, the 

 arrangement will work well, until the dirty people are 

 so numerous, that it will be impossible to have sufficient 

 officials to check the manifestation of their undesirable 

 habits, unless we shall be prepared to make all the 

 rest of the nation officials. Then will come the 

 reckoning. In the latter part of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury we did not pay the toll we should have done to 

 Nature, but in the latter half of the twentieth century 

 She will have it, with exorbitant interest, exacting it 

 under "harsh and unconscionable" terms. For the in- 

 herently lazy, sluggish, and dirty people, grown into 

 numbers beyond control, will destroy the clean en- 

 vironment, and will re-create unsanitary conditions, 

 which, descending upon a race ripened by modern 

 sentiment for the harvest, will garner its fruit in almost 

 illimitable measure. 



The noblest sentiment this nation can adopt is not 

 that of cheating Nature, by presuming upon our 

 imperfect knowledge and the arrogance of over- 

 weening aspirations, but that which is expressed in 

 Wordsworth's lines : — 



" To the solid ground of Nature, trusts the Mind 

 which builds for Aye." 



