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connected with the continuance of life. (See 

 Chapter VIII.) 



(2) Moral education, too often neglected 

 or unskilled in the past, is likely to do much 

 in the way of renewing that vital continuity 

 of upward growth which is so often and 

 so easily distorted or broken, between the 

 simplest organic drearnings and stirrings 

 of sex-impulse and the ideals of lover and poet, 

 of eugenist and statesman. The biological 

 setting is invaluable, but it tends fundamen- 

 tally to be matter of fact; it must be com- 

 plemented by an ideal setting. Hence (were 

 it but as the surest way to keep evil out) 

 the noble examples of the past, the possi- 

 bilities of the future, should pre-occupy the 

 mind. Only with this dual education, organic 

 yet ideal, physiologic yet poetic, can our 

 complex modern city life be again grown 

 healthily, and become, as in the best and 

 simplest rustic life of old, healthy from root 

 to flower. 



(3) It seems legitimate to look forward to 

 a very considerable lessening of the troubles 

 of adolescence, when doctor and psychologist, 

 teacher and parent find time to unite their 

 brains in the task. There can be no doubt 

 that the ideal of preventive medicine has not 

 been sufficiently borne in mind in connection 

 with this critical period, and that things are 

 left to themselves in a fatalistic fashion. 

 There should be more preparation for the 

 probable storms a preparation which many 

 savage tribes have tried to meet in a manner 

 that makes us ashamed of our own " muddling 

 through." It is likely that the establishment 



