THE CALL OF THE LAND 



the life processes may be improved in tone, 

 producing solider and more perfect speci- 

 mens of the race. The resultant men and 

 women will average to live more years ow- 

 ing to the care exercised. Each year they 

 stay on earth will be happier. They will 

 be more efficient and useful. They will im- 

 pose less care and expense upon friends. 

 Their fellowmen dealing with them will 

 find the converse pleasanter. Offspring, if 

 any, will be worthier to exist. 



Health is important that we may live, 

 think, feel and act strongly so long as we 

 live, think, feel and act at all. To say that 

 life ought to be is equivalent to saying that 

 it ought to be as whole and virile as it may. 

 If we are puny and ailing, unless the defect 

 springs from causes beyond our control, we 

 are guilty. Let life be short if it must but 

 let it be full. While our blood runs let it 

 run red and swiftly. Men and women who 

 mostly dawdle might as well be dead. They 

 effect little toward any end for which 

 human existence can have been meant. 



Even religion, spirituality, proper prep- 



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