PAET III 

 INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY 



CHAPTEE LXXXVII 

 BE CLEAN 



CLEANLINESS is the simplest, yet the most potent 

 preventive of disease. Disease germs starve on 

 Cleanliness; fat on filth. Cleanness repels them; 

 filth attracts them. 



Nature abhors filth, and so converts it into green 

 grass, roses, stately trees. 



The lower animals in the wild state keep clean, 

 and therefore avoid disease. 



Filth and disease are sisters; crime and disease 

 first cousins. They all belong on the same gene- 

 alogical tree. 



Physical purity induces moral purity. A clean 

 body begets a clean mind. 



To save the body is to save the soul. The sin of 

 the world is the world's filth. Wash it away, and 

 be clean. 



In one's skin are two and one-half million pores, 

 little tubes, sewers for the outlet of waste from 

 the body. Through this system of sewers worn out 

 material is every moment passing, usually as in- 



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