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THE BIOLOGY OF DISEASE 



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197. What are you going to do and how are you going to 

 do it ? — We have now learned some of the facts about 

 how to keep well and how to do our life work effectively 

 and efficiently. We all begin life as children with an un- 

 known work to do. How well are we going to do it ? 

 Judge Lindsay says, " Children are the life blood of the 

 states. They are better producers of energy than steam 

 or electricity." Davenport in a new study emphasizes 

 this point in the following words: "The human babies 

 born each year constitute the world's most valuable crop. 

 Taking the population of the globe to be one and one- half 

 billion, probably about fifty million children are born each 

 year. In the continental United States with over ninety 

 million souls probably two and one-half million children 

 are annually born. When we think of the influence of a 

 Harriman, of an Edison, of a William James, the potential- 

 ity is far from being realized. Nearly half a million of 

 these infants die before they attain the age of one year, 

 and half of all are dead before they reach their 23d year 



