CHAPTER C 

 LONGER LIFE REWARD 



TAKING the average duration of life as forty 

 years, it follows that the entire population of the 

 earth, 1,500,000,000, one billion five hundred 

 million, dies, on the average, once in every forty 

 years. This means that 37,500,000 die every year. 



Allowing that 7,500,000 deaths are caused every 

 year by accident, old age and disease not caused 

 by germs, the other 30,000,000 must be caused by 

 purely contagious and infectious diseases. One- 

 half of these deaths, 15,000,000, are children 

 under six years. The other half, 15,000,000, 

 are youths, and adults mostly before middle age. 



Therefore, with all the contagious and infec- 

 tious diseases removed from the world, the whole 

 thirty millions, who now die so early in life, would 

 stand a good chance of living to an advanced age. 

 This fact alone would materially lengthen the aver- 

 age duration of life. 



In the second place, many parents are now 

 weakened by the diseases; many more even have 

 the diseases when they beget children. The dis- 

 eases are not hereditary, but the tendencies to 

 weakness are. Physically weak parents beget 

 physically weak children. Thousands of children 



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