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purpose of life, and ought to be universally available. We 

 must, therefore, use every means within our power, both 

 individually and nationally, in order that these should be 

 put within the reach of all who make a legitimate effort to 

 acquire them, and who, when these legitimate efforts fail 

 in procuring them, may be assisted in obtaining them, so 

 as to leave as small a residuum of absolute idlers as 

 possible to be dealt with otherwise. 



It has been said on the highest authority that " man 

 does not live by bread alone " ; what he does live by, 

 therefore, in addition to those means which he ought to 

 be able to provide, is the " free air " of heaven, and that 

 he ought to have in as pure a condition as it is possible 

 to supply it by all the means within the reach of civilised 

 man to procure it, so that ultimately there may be placed 

 within the reach of every member of the great human 

 family the complete means of maintaining life in comfort, 

 if not in happiness. 



Pure air is the enemy of disease, the corner-stone of 

 the foundation of health, and the great upholder of life 

 in all its advanced phases ; as ablution and cleanliness are 

 next to godliness, so is, and much more, pure air to the 

 health, bodily and mental, of man. The gospel of the 

 provision of the necessaries of life must, therefore, be 

 associated with the gospel of cleanliness, and all that is 

 sweet and of " good report," to the end that all that is 

 peculiarly desirable in the individual and the community 

 may follow as the great progress of cause and effect evolves 

 itself in ever-increasing degree of perfection of result, and 

 more and more wide-spreading and all-embracing univer- 

 sality of incidence. 



