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and attendants bathe and dress patients, see that they are 
properly fed and not abused. If any one harbors any such 
opinions of the Colony, and the purposes for which it was 
created, we ask them to abandon them, or have them dissi- 
pated by reading the law that founded the Colony and by 
coming and spending sufficient time on the Colony premises 
to understand and appreciate the many lines of active 
medical and scientific work, of investigation, of study, and 
of inquiry always going on here. 
“The civilization of a community is measured by the 
education of its people. When there are so many interests 
involved all at once, as there are now at the Craig Colony 
in its rapid growth and development, when progress is being 
forced so fast along so many lines as is now the case at the 
Colony, it might appear to be difficult to pick out any one 
or two things that need to be fostered and encouraged above 
all the rest; but that is not true in this case. Science and 
education stand out clear and distinct beyond all the rest. 
The Craig Colony for Epileptics was conceived along too 
high a plane to permit it to degenerate into a place of 
simple custody. That cannot be: Education and Science 
must ever play the most important part in the growth, 
development, usefulness, and welfare of this Institution.” 
I appeal to you, then, on national grounds, to consider 
this a national question. A considerable proportion of our 
people, say, two per thousand, are epileptic. I have faintly 
tried to indicate the national waste and crime which result 
from leaving them uncared for and unregarded. I have 
shown, I think, conclusively that the difficulties of dealing 
with this handicapped class, and placing them under con- 
ditions where they may be happy and useful and in part 
self-supporting members of the community, have been over- 
come. I desire to seein every State a beginning made towards 
this great work, and I feel sure that any State which makes 
some such provision for its epileptic citizens will, in the not 
distant future, reap a rich reward, not only in the increased 
happiness of its individual members, but in the very tangible 
relief felt in other branches of expenditure, in the lunacy 
department and in the administration of the prisons; so that 
when you apply to treasurers and to the charitable public 
for funds to start an Epileptic Colony, as sooner or later you 
are bound to do, you may do so with a clear conscience, 
assured that the money expended in helping the epileptic 
to help themselves will be saved by the State an hundred- 
foid in other directions. 
